CVE-2026-63986

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-19. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure

The goto err label leads to:

genlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr); return ret;

If ethnl_tsinfo_prepare_dump() failed, it has not started a genlmsg. There's nothing to cancel, and passing an error pointer to genlmsg_cancel() would cause a crash.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
1st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 19, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d2c5ccd1de28368cebeef74d9c530a60eff9a5
Web page

ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3fc9976f686f9a95baf87db9d387f218fd65394
Web page

ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERR_PTR to genlmsg_cancel on prepare failure - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2008f9bb1ede9b688624a241228b8e54fc74f0f6

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-63986(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(8)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.0.9-1~bpo13+1 (142 versions)
  • every version up to 7.0.12-1: fixed in 7.0.12-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 132 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 33 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
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  19. 2026-10-08 14:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rj76-wchj-2f64 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  20. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  21. 2026-10-07 21:02 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 5.5 MEDIUM
  22. 2026-10-07 21:02 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-07 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rj76-wchj-2f64
  24. 2026-10-07 21:02 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
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  7. 2026-10-01 09:03 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-01 09:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-rj76-wchj-2f64
  9. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  11. 2026-09-28 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
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  15. 2026-09-23 02:05 UTCVendor advisory
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  22. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-63986?
CVE-2026-63986 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 19, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: tsinfo: don't pass ERRPTR to genlmsgcancel on prepare failure The goto err label leads to: genlmsg_cancel(skb, ehdr); return ret; If ethnltsinfoprepare_dump() failed, it has not started a genlmsg. There's nothing to…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-63986 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-63986 was published on July 19, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-63986 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-63986 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-63986?
CVE-2026-63986 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-63986?
A fix for CVE-2026-63986 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-63986 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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