CVE-2026-68161

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown

proc_sctp_do_udp_port() starts per-net SCTP UDP tunneling sockets when net.sctp.udp_port is set, and stops/restarts them when the sysctl value changes. The netns exit path does not stop these sockets, so a namespace can be torn down while its SCTP UDP tunnel sockets are still installed.

Close the UDP tunnel sockets from sctp_ctrlsock_exit() after unregistering the per-net sysctl table. This prevents new sysctl writes from racing in while the sockets are being released, and closes the sockets before the control socket is destroyed.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

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)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
50th
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 (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.7% 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (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 (6)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb2bd7ade36ec4da32c46a6eddbf4515316d08c
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6eb2d615210b80339548ab07c0230edaab9a6c7
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c29affd44e6769e3073235d4b471d9b501fa8166
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ff78591d309c50a4fdab683b68dd8d512a270dd
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf0e349cbb4f975f35eb22753acc346b89c66a0
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff9794be48d0caa37687e04d09675f9c849121

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68161(2)

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

Patch Availability(9)

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 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.101-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.101-1~deb12u1
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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
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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

(9)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 32× in last 7d / 167× 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 478 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 378 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-19 21:03 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-19 21:03 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-19 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-19 20:58 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-19 20:58 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-19 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  11. 2026-10-18 18:52 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-18 18:52 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-18 18:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  15. 2026-10-18 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-17 17:48 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-17 17:48 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-17 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  20. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  23. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-16 16:04 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-16 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  2. 2026-10-15 15:02 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-15 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  5. 2026-10-14 09:29 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-14 09:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  8. 2026-10-13 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-13 07:04 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-13 07:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-12 05:58 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-12 05:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-11 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
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  17. 2026-10-11 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  20. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  21. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  22. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-07 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-07 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-06 23:07 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-06 23:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-06 18:37 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-06 18:37 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-06 18:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  31. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  35. 2026-10-05 07:51 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-05 07:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  41. 2026-10-04 22:52 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-04 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-04 13:24 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-04 13:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  45. 2026-10-04 09:19 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-04 09:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  51. 2026-10-03 11:35 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-03 11:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  56. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  57. 2026-10-02 16:20 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-02 16:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  59. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-02 09:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  63. 2026-10-01 14:02 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-01 14:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  65. 2026-10-01 10:12 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-01 10:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  67. 2026-10-01 06:21 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-01 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  69. 2026-10-01 02:32 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-01 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  71. 2026-09-30 22:42 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-09-30 22:42 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-30 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  75. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68161?
CVE-2026-68161 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown procsctpdoudpport() starts per-net SCTP UDP tunneling sockets when net.sctp.udp_port is set, and stops/restarts them when the sysctl value changes. The netns exit path does not…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68161 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68161 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-2026-68161 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68161 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68161?
CVE-2026-68161 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68161?
A fix for CVE-2026-68161 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68161 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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