CVE-2026-68302

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: 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:

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull

Several AMT receive and transmit paths cache a pointer into the skb head (ip_hdr(), ipv6_hdr(), eth_hdr() or the AMT message header) and then call a helper that can reallocate that head before the cached pointer is used again. pskb_may_pull(), ip_mc_may_pull(), ipv6_mc_may_pull(), iptunnel_pull_header(), ip_mc_check_igmp() and ipv6_mc_check_mld() can all free the old head and move the data, so a pointer taken before the call dangles afterwards and the later access is a use-after-free of the freed head.

The affected sites are:

amt_rcv() caches ip_hdr() before amt_parse_type() pulls, then reads iph->saddr.

amt_dev_xmit() caches ip_hdr()/ipv6_hdr() before ip_mc_check_igmp()/ ipv6_mc_check_mld() and pskb_may_pull(), then reads the group address.

amt_multicast_data_handler() caches eth_hdr() before pskb_may_pull(), then writes the L2 header.

amt_membership_query_handler() caches the AMT header, the outer and inner eth_hdr() and ip_hdr() before iptunnel_pull_header() and several pulls, then reads and writes them.

amt_igmpv3_report_handler() and amt_mldv2_report_handler() cache ip_hdr()/ipv6_hdr() and the current group record and read the record count from the report header inside the record loop, across the *_mc_may_pull() calls.

amt_update_handler() caches ip_hdr() and the AMT membership-update header before pskb_may_pull(), iptunnel_pull_header(), ip_mc_check_igmp() and the report handler, then reads iph->daddr and amtmu->nonce / amtmu->response_mac.

Fix each site by either snapshotting the scalar that is used after the pull before the first pull runs, or re-deriving the header pointer from the skb after the last pull that can move the head. Values that are stable across the pull (source and group address, the response MAC and nonce, the record count, the outer source MAC) are snapshotted; pointers that are written through or read repeatedly are re-derived.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(high)
EG Risk
49(Track)
EG Risk 49/100SSVC: 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
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
40%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca0e8b661957f777591efe874cd9d9a63619cd99
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9005b221cb1f9c3c1a2ef656fb0e8fa80c0a187e
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f48e3ddad8e97545b25788b8203b3a539df1621
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7746d588d42a4ac0117b68ed8e9b22a9da53dfb7
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff890f9c18dfbcf57e17199901d4fd1e4c174e
generic

amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3656a79f94c471827a08f2cacce5f94ad5e52c24

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68302(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 63× in last 7d / 78× 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 03:54 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-08-21 03:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-21 00:06 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-21 00:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-20 20:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-20 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-20 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-20 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-20 05:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-20 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-19 21:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-19 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-08-19 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-19 16:54 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-08-19 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-08-19 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-19 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-19 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-19 01:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-18 21:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-18 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-18 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-18 12:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-18 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-18 04:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-18 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-17 20:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-17 17:01 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-17 17:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-17 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-17 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-17 05:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-08-17 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-08-17 05:06 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-17 05:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-17 04:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-17 00:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-08-16 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-16 17:05 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-16 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-16 13:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-16 09:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-16 05:40 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-16 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-08-16 01:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-08-15 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-15 18:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-08-15 14:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-08-15 10:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-08-15 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-08-15 02:21 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-15 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-08-14 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-08-14 18:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-08-14 14:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-08-14 11:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-08-14 07:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-08-14 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-08-14 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-08-13 23:46 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-08-13 23:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCEG score recompute 9.80
  45. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-08-13 22:44 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 9.8 · severity → CRITICAL
  47. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-08-13 16:39 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-08-13 16:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-08-10 13:24 UTCNVD update
  52. 2026-08-10 12:19 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-08-10 12:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68302?
CVE-2026-68302 is a critical vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: amt: re-read skb header pointers after every pull Several AMT receive and transmit paths cache a pointer into the skb head (iphdr(), ipv6hdr(), eth_hdr() or the AMT message header) and then call a helper that can reallocate that…
When was CVE-2026-68302 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68302 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-2026-68302 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68302 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 60.2% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68302?
CVE-2026-68302 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68302?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68302, 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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