CVE-2026-68288

UNRATEDCVSS · not yet scoredTrending — 4 sources updated this week
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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:

net: drop_monitor: fix info leak in NET_DM_ATTR_PAYLOAD

net_dm_packet_report_fill() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_fill() open code the NET_DM_ATTR_PAYLOAD attribute to avoid zeroing the packet payload before overwriting it with skb_copy_bits().

skb_put() reserves nla_total_size(payload_len), i.e. the header plus the NLA_ALIGN() padding, but only payload_len bytes are copied in. When payload_len is not a multiple of 4 the 1-3 padding bytes are never initialized and are leaked to user space inside the netlink message.

KMSAN confirms the leak for the software path when the packet payload length is not 4-byte aligned:

BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_iter _copy_to_iter __skb_datagram_iter skb_copy_datagram_iter netlink_recvmsg sock_recvmsg __sys_recvfrom Uninit was created at: kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof __alloc_skb net_dm_packet_work Bytes 173-175 of 176 are uninitialized

Use __nla_reserve(), which sets up the attribute header and zeroes the padding, instead of open coding the attribute construction.

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
6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

References (2)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68288(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 13× in last 7d / 20× 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 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 11:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-17 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-17 05:26 UTCNVD update
  9. 2026-08-17 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-17 05:05 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  11. 2026-08-17 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-08-13 19:17 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-08-13 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-10 13:24 UTCNVD update
  19. 2026-08-10 12:19 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-10 12:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-68288?
CVE-2026-68288 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dropmonitor: fix info leak in NETDMATTRPAYLOAD netdmpacketreportfill() and netdmhwpacketreport_fill() open code the NETDMATTR_PAYLOAD attribute to avoid zeroing the packet payload before overwriting it with skbcopybits().…
When was CVE-2026-68288 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68288 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-2026-68288 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68288 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 94.1% of all scored CVEs.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68288?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68288, 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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