CVE-2026-72221

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 — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (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: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race

When wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() in svc_tcp_handshake() returns 0 (timeout) or -ERESTARTSYS (signal) and tls_handshake_cancel() then returns false, handshake_complete() has won the cancellation race: it has set HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED and is about to invoke svc_tcp_handshake_done(), but the callback's side effects on xpt_flags and on svsk->sk_handshake_done have not yet committed.

The current code reads xpt_flags immediately to decide whether the session succeeded. Two races result.

If the callback has executed set_bit(XPT_TLS_SESSION) but not yet clear_bit(XPT_HANDSHAKE), svc_tcp_handshake() sees a session, enqueues the transport, and returns. svc_xprt_received() then clears XPT_BUSY, a worker thread picks the transport up, the dispatcher in svc_handle_xprt() observes XPT_HANDSHAKE still set, and xpo_handshake is invoked a second time. That svc_tcp_handshake() calls init_completion(&svsk->sk_handshake_done) while the original callback concurrently calls complete_all() on it, corrupting the embedded swait_queue.

If the callback has set HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED but not yet entered svc_tcp_handshake_done(), svc_tcp_handshake() reads XPT_TLS_SESSION as clear and tears the connection down even though the handshake is about to succeed.

Wait for the callback to commit before inspecting xpt_flags. The completion is guaranteed to fire because handshake_complete() invokes svc_tcp_handshake_done() unconditionally once it has set HANDSHAKE_F_REQ_COMPLETED.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

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.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
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 2026-10-19). 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (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 15, 2026

Last Modified

October 16, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Oct 16, 2026
Patch available.
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sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0f4691d42a54d359d8b64509fd9ab938d4f2a33
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sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d00e32f84ca1a77cb67a3fbf59f58dada95f5a21
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sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4f878e8ecd729ccf2e50993444e217583adeace
Web page

sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b23bec1fca6e9ebdc3e6041ebf8c6ab074141b
Web page

sunrpc: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d8ceb39884148dc7a2fdf71e1cac5961ed1d2b9

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72221(1)

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

Patch Availability(9)

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

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (31 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.100-1: fixed in 6.12.100-1
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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 29× in last 7d / 186× 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 449 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 349 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 21:18 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 21:18 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 21:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-18 20:20 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-18 20:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  9. 2026-10-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-17 19:53 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-17 19:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  13. 2026-10-16 19:26 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-16 19:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-16 18:54 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-16 18:54 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-16 18:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  19. 2026-10-16 15:04 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-16 15:04 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-16 15:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  23. 2026-10-15 14:36 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-15 14:36 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-15 14:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-10-14 09:11 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-14 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  5. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  9. 2026-10-12 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
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  14. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  19. 2026-10-07 07:33 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-07 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-07 02:54 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-07 02:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-06 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-06 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-06 17:34 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-06 17:34 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-06 17:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  29. 2026-10-06 13:25 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-06 13:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  35. 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-05 12:39 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-05 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-05 06:51 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-05 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  44. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  45. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-04 16:30 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-04 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  49. 2026-10-04 12:12 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-04 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  51. 2026-10-04 07:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-04 03:41 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-04 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  57. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  58. 2026-10-03 01:56 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-03 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  60. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-02 15:55 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-02 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  65. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-10-02 07:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  68. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  69. 2026-10-01 14:12 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-01 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  71. 2026-10-01 10:03 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-01 10:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  73. 2026-10-01 05:54 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-01 05:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5gf3-c25p-fm95 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  75. 2026-10-01 01:38 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72221?
CVE-2026-72221 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: wait for in-flight TLS handshake callback when cancel loses race When waitforcompletioninterruptibletimeout() in svctcphandshake() returns 0 (timeout) or -ERESTARTSYS (signal) and tlshandshakecancel() then returns false,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72221 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72221 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 October 16, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-72221 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72221 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-2026-72221?
CVE-2026-72221 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-2026-72221?
A fix for CVE-2026-72221 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72221 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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