CVE-2026-68140

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path

af_iucv queues not-yet-received message notifications on iucv->message_q, each holding a raw pointer to the connection's iucv_path. When the peer severs the connection, iucv_sever_path() frees that path with iucv_path_free() but leaves the notifications queued. A later recvmsg() drains message_q via iucv_process_message_q() and hands the stale path to message_receive() -- a use-after-free of the freed iucv_path.

Drop the queued notifications when the path is severed; once the path is gone they can no longer be received. This also frees the notifications leaked when a socket is closed with messages still queued.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

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)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
18th
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 (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-19). 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 (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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 Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 14, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f579582c03ed526281a8450159baf1d35099a85f
Web page

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be7cc4656eb1f54029610e82d1f0fdd3f9b5ec0a
Web page

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5bbaddf69853117f28173c3f5c8fc14c6b2ec82
Web page

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/900cd6d8119b7f3ae5c4bf82f922ff5957df43db
Web page

net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23658b350b4107e8292045c2044983fd426fa15d

Patch Availability(17)

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

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (56 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.187-1: fixed in 6.1.187-1
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linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.101-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.101-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (32 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.101-1: fixed in 6.12.101-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (161 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.6-1: fixed in 7.1.6-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 96× 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 100 of 283 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 183 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 21:44 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 21:44 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 21:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-10-19 21:04 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-19 21:04 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-19 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  7. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  8. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  9. 2026-10-18 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  11. 2026-10-16 17:35 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-16 17:35 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-16 17:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  15. 2026-10-16 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-16 16:08 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-16 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  18. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  19. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  20. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  21. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  25. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 16:45 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  7. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  9. 2026-10-06 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-06 18:40 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-06 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  12. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  13. 2026-10-05 18:29 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-05 18:29 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-05 18:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  16. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  17. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  18. 2026-10-04 22:52 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-04 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  20. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  23. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  24. 2026-10-03 00:56 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-03 00:56 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-03 00:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  27. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  28. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  31. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  32. 2026-10-01 12:09 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-01 12:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  34. 2026-09-30 22:43 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-30 22:43 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-30 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  37. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  38. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  41. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  42. 2026-09-28 05:55 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-28 05:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  44. 2026-09-27 16:58 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-27 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-27 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  47. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  48. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  49. 2026-09-25 04:05 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-09-25 04:05 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-25 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-09-24 03:36 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-24 03:36 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-24 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  55. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  56. 2026-09-23 14:39 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-23 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-09-23 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-09-23 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-23 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-09-22 12:44 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-22 12:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  63. 2026-09-21 23:15 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-21 23:15 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-21 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  66. 2026-09-21 02:11 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-09-21 02:11 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-09-21 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  69. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
  70. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  72. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8p4m-4f3f-9xqp · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  75. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68140?
CVE-2026-68140 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: fix use-after-free of a severed iucv_path afiucv queues not-yet-received message notifications on iucv->messageq, each holding a raw pointer to the connection's iucv_path. When the peer severs the connection,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68140 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68140 was published on August 10, 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 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-68140 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68140 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (18th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68140?
CVE-2026-68140 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68140?
A fix for CVE-2026-68140 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68140 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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