CVE-2026-68196

HIGHPre-NVD 8.38.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 8.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.3; 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
8.3EG
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: 0.4%CVSS: 8.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header

wilc_parse_assoc_resp_info() computes the trailing IE length as

ies_len = buffer_len - sizeof(*res);

without first checking that buffer_len is at least sizeof(struct wilc_assoc_resp) (6 bytes). buffer_len is the length reported for a received association response (host_int_parse_assoc_resp_info() passes hif_drv->assoc_resp / assoc_resp_info_len straight in) and must be validated before the driver accesses the fixed header.

For a frame shorter than the 6-byte fixed header, the subtraction wraps. For a four-byte response the result is truncated to a u16 ies_len of 65534, so kmemdup() then attempts to copy 65534 bytes starting at buffer + sizeof(*res), beyond the valid association-response data (CWE-125). A response shorter than four bytes can also cause an out-of-bounds read of res->status_code at offsets 2 and 3.

Reject frames too short to hold the fixed header before touching the header or computing ies_len. Also set the connection status to a failure on this path: the caller falls through to a "conn_info->status == WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS" check after the parser returns, so leaving the status untouched could let a malformed short response be treated as a successful association.

CVSS v3
8.3
EG Score
8.3HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
38
EG Risk 38/100

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)
Severity83% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 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
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
34th
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 (8.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.3 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.4% 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

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

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

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e511e93abd6eeedcd5b3c55516241f414fbde64a
Web page

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ccdf8c8de87a9580df37c3c1ec53ba88cedef65
Web page

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/584c8954ad55f8b09b475be6db710fe40ceb988c
Web page

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d410320e8ae5933e651660c9fadc1d380309e23
Web page

wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4c97b60a5e978121d9ee8cb0ab3916e5d6a8de

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68196(2)

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

Patch Availability(13)

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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Additional Vendor Advisories

(13)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 85× 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 275 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 175 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 0.4% · 34th percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  3. 2026-10-18 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  5. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  6. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  7. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  8. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  9. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-13 10:14 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-13 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  12. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  13. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
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  17. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  18. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  19. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  20. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  21. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  22. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-06 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  25. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  4. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  5. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  6. 2026-10-04 22:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  7. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-04 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  10. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  11. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-03 00:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  14. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  15. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-02 09:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  18. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  19. 2026-10-01 10:55 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-01 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  21. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-30 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  24. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  25. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-29 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  28. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  29. 2026-09-28 05:11 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-28 05:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  31. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-09-27 16:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  34. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  35. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  36. 2026-09-25 04:04 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-25 04:04 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-25 04:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  39. 2026-09-24 12:41 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-24 12:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  41. 2026-09-24 00:22 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-09-24 00:22 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-24 00:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  44. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  45. 2026-09-23 12:08 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-23 12:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  47. 2026-09-22 23:54 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-22 23:54 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-09-22 23:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  50. 2026-09-22 11:26 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-22 11:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  52. 2026-09-21 23:11 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-21 23:11 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-21 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  55. 2026-09-21 02:03 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-09-21 02:03 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-21 02:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  58. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  59. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-20 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  61. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-19 20:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  64. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-09-19 06:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  67. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  68. 2026-09-18 17:18 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-18 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  70. 2026-09-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-18 03:16 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-18 03:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  73. 2026-09-17 15:02 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-17 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hm4w-q57w-3qrc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.3
  75. 2026-09-17 00:48 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68196?
CVE-2026-68196 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header wilcparseassocrespinfo() computes the trailing IE length as ieslen = bufferlen - sizeof(*res); without first checking that buffer_len is at least…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68196 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68196 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 August 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-68196 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68196 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (34th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68196?
CVE-2026-68196 has a CVSS base score of 8.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68196?
A fix for CVE-2026-68196 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68196 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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