CVE-2026-68294

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: 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: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace

QRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables that are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtr_local_nid is a single global node id (always 1) and qrtr_ports is a single global xarray. qrtr_port_lookup() and qrtr_local_enqueue() operate on that global state with no network-namespace check, and qrtr_create() places no restriction on the namespace a socket is created in.

As a result an unprivileged process that creates an AF_QIPCRTR socket in a separate network namespace, e.g. via unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET), can send QRTR datagrams - including control-plane messages such as QRTR_TYPE_NEW_SERVER - to QRTR sockets owned by another namespace, and vice versa. The receiving socket sees such a message as coming from node id 1, indistinguishable from a legitimate local client, breaking the isolation that network namespaces are expected to provide.

QRTR is a transport to global hardware endpoints (the modem and other remote processors) and has no per-namespace semantics; its in-kernel name service already creates its socket in init_net only. Confine the socket family to the initial network namespace, as other non-namespace-aware socket families do (see llc_ui_create() and the ieee802154 socket code).

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8(high)
EG Risk
44(Track)
EG Risk 44/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 14, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f488116df769bdaf89c93371350e49e12133e70f
generic

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8150c48fb978e01689f94ed80148f8a7499ae571
generic

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/659b9b4f194bb56b9903cc95e786ef1d438baa7d
generic

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b95e1f0d6e6342c427cb341ee18a894b146b789
generic

net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b536db8fb32da9e9c62f2bb45e2e319331f0426

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68294(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 37× in last 7d / 49× 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. 2026-08-21 02:56 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-21 02:56 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-08-21 02:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-20 15:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-20 04:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-19 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-19 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-19 16:54 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-19 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-19 14:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-19 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-08-18 15:18 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-18 15:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-18 03:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-17 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-17 16:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-17 05:37 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-08-17 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-17 05:06 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-17 05:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-16 18:49 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-16 18:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-16 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-16 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-15 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-15 09:15 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-15 09:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-14 22:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-14 10:55 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-14 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-13 23:46 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-13 23:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCEG score recompute 8.80
  16. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 8.8 · severity → HIGH
  18. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-13 18:04 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-13 18:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-10 13:24 UTCNVD update
  23. 2026-08-10 12:19 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-10 12:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68294?
CVE-2026-68294 is a high vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace QRTR keeps its entire port and node state in module-global variables that are not partitioned per network namespace: qrtrlocalnid is a single global node id…
When was CVE-2026-68294 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68294 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 10, 2026, with the most recent update on August 19, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-68294 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68294 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 93.9% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68294?
CVE-2026-68294 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68294?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68294, 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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