CVE-2026-72240

UNRATEDCVSS · not yet scoredTrending — 5 sources updated this week
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EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • No CVSS published and no exploitation signals yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS v2: —Exploit: 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:

mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration

When platform_device_register() fails in sm501_register_device(), the embedded struct device in pdev has already been initialized by device_initialize(), but the failure path only reports the error and returns without dropping the device reference for the current platform device:

sm501_register_device() -> platform_device_register(pdev) -> device_initialize(&pdev->dev) -> setup_pdev_dma_masks(pdev) -> platform_device_add(pdev)

This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails. Fix this by calling platform_device_put() before returning the error.

The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review.

CVSS v3
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EchelonGraph score
Not yet assessedNo source has published severity data for this CVE yet — no CVSS score from NVD or a CNA, no GitHub advisory, and it is not in CISA KEV. This is not a rating of zero; we cannot assess it yet.
EG Score
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EG Risk
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EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
12%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

References (8)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72240(1)

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 18× in last 7d / 18× 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. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 01:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-17 06:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-17 06:18 UTCNVD update
  9. 2026-08-17 05:31 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-17 05:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-17 05:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  12. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-08-15 06:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-15 06:23 UTCNVD update
  17. 2026-08-15 06:09 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-15 06:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-72240?
CVE-2026-72240 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: sm501: Fix reference leak on failed device registration When platformdeviceregister() fails in sm501registerdevice(), the embedded struct device in pdev has already been initialized by device_initialize(), but the failure path…
When was CVE-2026-72240 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72240 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 15, 2026, with the most recent update on August 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-72240 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72240 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 88.5% of all scored CVEs.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72240?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-72240, 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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