CVE-2026-68189

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; 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
7.8EG
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: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal

The hci_sync conversion moved class-of-device and EIR generation from an HCI request built under hdev->lock to asynchronous command sync work. The worker holds hdev->req_lock, but that lock does not serialize access to hdev->uuids against add_uuid() and remove_uuid(), which update the list under hdev->lock.

The following interleaving can therefore occur:

CPU0 (command sync work) CPU1 (management socket) fetch uuid from the list list_del(&uuid->list) kfree(uuid) read uuid->size

KASAN reports the resulting use-after-free:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in eir_create+0xb8f/0xee0 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88810dbd8620 by task kworker/u17:0/87 Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work Call Trace: eir_create+0xb8f/0xee0 hci_update_eir_sync+0x1c0/0x330 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x13c/0x290 process_one_work+0x63a/0x1070 worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10

Allocated by task 86: __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 add_uuid+0x18a/0x4b0 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x1033/0x1ea0

Freed by task 92: __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x131/0x3c0 remove_uuid+0x25e/0x560 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x1033/0x1ea0

Hold hdev->lock while generating and committing the class-of-device and EIR snapshots. Release it before sending an HCI command, so controller waits do not happen under the device lock. This protects all UUID list walks in these paths and restores the serialization lost in the command sync conversion.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

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)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 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
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
4th
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 (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% 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

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe13adc258df88d95789e5673c7ba5178b5f8b28
Web page

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9027ffbf5a0f3c12ca8900822e884eae9f0821b
Web page

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4fa2c5c261d736b8e58759fdef3a968d510630c
Web page

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a42f5536ea9c00e13f0c0fbb330feed95e2365ca
Web page

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a351f68fb24828b23a971e00b8238ee0e8a40380

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68189(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 ... 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
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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 22× in last 7d / 94× 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 277 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 177 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 21:43 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 21:43 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  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-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
  8. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-16 17:34 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-16 17:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
  15. 2026-10-16 16:08 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-16 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 4th percentile
  20. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-13 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  23. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  24. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-11 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 16:45 UTCEG score recompute
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  3. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  8. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  12. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  17. 2026-10-04 22:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  22. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  26. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  29. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  30. 2026-10-01 12:09 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-01 12:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  32. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  35. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  37. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  39. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  40. 2026-09-28 05:57 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-09-28 05:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  42. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  45. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  48. 2026-09-25 04:05 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-09-25 04:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  50. 2026-09-24 04:09 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-24 04:09 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-24 04:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  53. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  54. 2026-09-23 14:44 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-23 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  56. 2026-09-23 01:43 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-23 01:43 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-23 01:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  59. 2026-09-22 12:43 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-22 12:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  61. 2026-09-21 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-21 23:12 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-21 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  64. 2026-09-21 02:04 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-21 02:04 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-09-21 02:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  67. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  68. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  70. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  73. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jprq-4ghp-p3f9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68189?
CVE-2026-68189 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal The hci_sync conversion moved class-of-device and EIR generation from an HCI request built under hdev->lock to asynchronous command sync work. The worker holds hdev->req_lock, but…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68189 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68189 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-2026-68189 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68189 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (4th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68189?
CVE-2026-68189 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68189?
A fix for CVE-2026-68189 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68189 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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