CVE-2026-68205

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EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • No CVSS published and no exploitation signals yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS v2: —Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

media: v4l2-fwnode: Fix subdev owner overwritten in v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor()

The v4l2 helper v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor() calls v4l2_async_register_subdev(), which is a macro that expands to __v4l2_async_register_subdev(sd,THIS_MODULE). Since the macro is expanded inside v4l2-fwnode.c, THIS_MODULE resolves to the v4l2-fwnode module rather than the sensor driver module that originally set sd->owner. When v4l2-fwnode is built-in, THIS_MODULE evaluates to NULL, which then overwrites the sensor driver's owner with NULL.

This causes the problem that the sensor module's reference count is never incremented during async registration, so the module can be removed while the subdevice is still in use by a notifier (e.g., a CSI-2 receiver bridge driver).

Fix this by renaming v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor() to __v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor() with an added explicit module argument and introducing a wrapper macro: #define v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor(sd) \ __v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor(sd, THIS_MODULE)

This ensures the sensor driver module is properly referenced even when the sensor driver does not init the owner field before calling v4l2_async_register_subdev_sensor() and prevents premature module removal.

CVSS v3
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EchelonGraph score
Not yet assessedNo source has published severity data for this CVE yet — no CVSS score from NVD or a CNA, no GitHub advisory, and it is not in CISA KEV. This is not a rating of zero; we cannot assess it yet.
EG Score
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EG Risk
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EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
11%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

References (5)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68205(2)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 19× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 05:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-17 05:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-17 05:26 UTCNVD update
  8. 2026-08-17 05:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-17 05:05 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  10. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-16 13:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-13 13:32 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-13 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-10 13:24 UTCNVD update
  18. 2026-08-10 12:20 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-10 12:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-68205?
CVE-2026-68205 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l2-fwnode: Fix subdev owner overwritten in v4l2asyncregistersubdevsensor() The v4l2 helper v4l2asyncregistersubdevsensor() calls v4l2asyncregister_subdev(), which is a macro that expands to…
When was CVE-2026-68205 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68205 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 10, 2026, with the most recent update on August 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-68205 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68205 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 88.7% of all scored CVEs.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68205?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68205, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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