CVE-2026-72220

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.8EG
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: 0.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free

The svc_release_rqst() function executes the callback inside rqstp->rq_procinfo->pc_release. However, if a worker thread begins processing a new request and encounters an early error path (e.g., unsupported protocol, short frame, or bad auth) before a valid rq_procinfo is installed, a stale release hook can be re-triggered against reused state from the previous RPC, resulting in a double-free or use-after-free vulnerability.

Harden the lifecycle of rq_procinfo by:

  • Ensuring svc_release_rqst() always clears rq_procinfo after the
optional pc_release() call, regardless of whether the hook exists.
  • Explicitly clearing rq_procinfo at request entry in svc_process()
before any early decode or drop paths.
  • Ensuring svc_process_bc() does the same at backchannel entry.

This guarantees that error flows will not encounter a non-NULL stale rq_procinfo pointer when there is nothing to release.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

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)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
49th
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 (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-18). 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 (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” 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 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 13, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66014ab165cb01bfef5836939412a8ef98d5d5ff
Web page

sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31ba490c02d476a5e4f90b8845932ac9db8aa71b
Web page

sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d216788bef06332ff8901670ecf1ed8f6eb614

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72220(1)

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

Patch Availability(5)

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

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (160 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.5-1: fixed in 7.1.5-1
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All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 163× 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 422 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 322 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-10-19 13:54 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-19 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 14:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  8. 2026-10-17 14:09 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-17 14:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  11. 2026-10-16 14:17 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-16 14:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  14. 2026-10-15 14:17 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-15 14:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  17. 2026-10-14 09:01 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-14 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  20. 2026-10-13 05:43 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-13 05:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  23. 2026-10-12 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
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  3. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  8. 2026-10-07 06:52 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-07 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-07 02:48 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-07 02:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-06 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-06 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-06 17:18 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-06 17:18 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-06 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  18. 2026-10-06 13:16 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-06 13:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  24. 2026-10-05 17:39 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-05 12:39 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-05 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-05 06:51 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-05 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  34. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  36. 2026-10-04 16:31 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-04 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-04 12:12 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-04 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-04 07:41 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-04 07:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  42. 2026-10-04 03:41 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-04 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  45. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  48. 2026-10-03 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-03 01:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  51. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-10-02 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-02 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  59. 2026-10-01 13:55 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-01 13:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  61. 2026-10-01 09:54 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-01 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-01 05:54 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-01 05:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  65. 2026-10-01 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-01 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  68. 2026-09-30 21:12 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-30 21:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  71. 2026-09-29 08:44 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-29 08:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  73. 2026-09-29 04:41 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-29 04:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m4wq-7wv4-xpq8 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72220?
CVE-2026-72220 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: harden rq_procinfo lifecycle to prevent double-free The svcreleaserqst() function executes the callback inside rqstp->rqprocinfo->pcrelease. However, if a worker thread begins processing a new request and encounters an…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72220 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72220 was published on August 15, 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 August 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-72220 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72220 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72220?
CVE-2026-72220 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72220?
A fix for CVE-2026-72220 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72220 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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