CVE-2026-68397

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

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, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
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: 0.3%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv()

afiucv_hs_rcv() looks up the destination socket under iucv_sk_list.lock, drops the lock, and then passes the socket to the afiucv_hs_callback_*() handlers without holding a reference. AF_IUCV sockets are not RCU-protected and are freed synchronously by iucv_sock_kill() -> sock_put(), so a concurrent close can free the socket in the window between read_unlock() and the handler, which then dereferences freed memory (for example sk->sk_data_ready() in afiucv_hs_callback_syn()).

Take a reference with sock_hold() while the socket is still on the list and release it with sock_put() once the handler has run.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

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)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
16th
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 (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-19). 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 (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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 Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

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

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c75a950e77356e526672cba4584080c6c8b793b6
Web page

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5595ea59cdf29182cf6a270cacc1426c57b603de
Web page

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa349156043dc119721d067329714179f501749
Web page

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dc0e63abf8bc7ba8892e617c1fb8b204361e022
Web page

net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucv_hs_rcv() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1801cb20a5025a787d6853e19c38db138344b4b4

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68397(2)

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

Patch Availability(15)

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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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 109× 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 316 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 216 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 22:31 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 22:31 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  7. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  8. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  9. 2026-10-18 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  11. 2026-10-16 17:32 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-16 17:32 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-16 17:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  15. 2026-10-16 16:06 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-16 16:06 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-16 16:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  18. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  19. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  20. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  21. 2026-10-13 10:09 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-13 10:09 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-13 10:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  25. 2026-10-12 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 16:45 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-11 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  5. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  6. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  7. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  8. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  9. 2026-10-07 05:32 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-07 05:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  11. 2026-10-06 18:24 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-06 18:24 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-06 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  15. 2026-10-05 18:59 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-05 18:59 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-05 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  18. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  19. 2026-10-05 07:49 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-05 07:49 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-05 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  22. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  23. 2026-10-04 16:41 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 16:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  25. 2026-10-04 04:27 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-04 04:27 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-04 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  28. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  29. 2026-10-03 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-03 00:53 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-03 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  32. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  33. 2026-10-02 09:20 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-02 09:20 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-02 09:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  36. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  37. 2026-10-01 09:32 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-01 09:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  39. 2026-09-30 22:37 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-30 22:37 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-09-30 22:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  42. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  43. 2026-09-29 05:23 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-09-29 05:23 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-29 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  46. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  47. 2026-09-28 13:16 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-28 13:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  49. 2026-09-28 02:24 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-09-28 02:24 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-28 02:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  53. 2026-09-27 12:49 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-27 12:49 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-27 12:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  56. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  57. 2026-09-25 04:02 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-09-25 04:02 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-25 04:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  60. 2026-09-24 08:11 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-24 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  62. 2026-09-23 21:11 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-23 21:11 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-23 21:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  65. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 18th percentile
  66. 2026-09-23 08:09 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-23 08:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  68. 2026-09-22 21:16 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-09-22 21:16 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-22 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  71. 2026-09-22 10:18 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-22 10:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  73. 2026-09-21 22:16 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-09-21 22:16 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-21 22:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7m4h-5x7q-hf25 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68397?
CVE-2026-68397 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: take a reference on the socket found in afiucvhsrcv() afiucvhsrcv() looks up the destination socket under iucvsklist.lock, drops the lock, and then passes the socket to the afiucvhscallback_*() handlers without holding a…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68397 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68397 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 October 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-68397 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68397 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (16th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68397?
CVE-2026-68397 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68397?
A fix for CVE-2026-68397 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68397 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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