CVE-2026-72289

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week
9.3EG
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: 0.2%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it

vgic_prune_ap_list() drops both ap_list_lock and irq_lock while migrating an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks that the affinity is unchanged (target_vcpu == vgic_target_oracle(irq)) before moving the interrupt, which assumes that an interrupt whose affinity is preserved is still queued on this vCPU's ap_list.

That assumption no longer holds if the interrupt is taken off the ap_list while the locks are dropped. vgic_flush_pending_lpis() removes the interrupt from the list and sets irq->vcpu to NULL, but leaves enabled/pending/target_vcpu untouched. As the interrupt is still enabled and pending, vgic_target_oracle() returns the same target_vcpu, so the affinity check passes and list_del() is run a second time on an entry that has already been removed.

Also check that the interrupt is still assigned to this vCPU (irq->vcpu == vcpu) before moving it.

CVSS v3
9.3
EG Score
9.3CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100

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 (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.3 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 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
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
7th
KEV
Not listed

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 (8)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e363c0bc0226dc5ea5046a88e9a6864b82c45399
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da2d249a39a1881681c303ceea33f38ba1c5bbeb
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb3efe1a354f1638726725c3ecee1ce8d1a7e2dc
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79fdd2aa774e44847cd9bb7edc811e73e3dc7bfe
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654be81c4c637af12709d47c7efc3302cd336513
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3893e1fcf6f306b327a8358dcd1cbd077989a240
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0658b09cba7fe866c6cd70cd2dcdfdcabe80328f
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0074b82cdfcb5fd13710a0ac308ade68ac6f6fbe

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

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (55 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.180-1: fixed in 6.1.180-1
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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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Additional Vendor Advisories

(13)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 223× 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 440 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 340 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-14 09:47 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-14 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-14 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  4. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  5. 2026-10-13 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-13 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-13 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  8. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  9. 2026-10-12 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  12. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  16. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  17. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  18. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  19. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  20. 2026-10-07 06:51 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-07 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  22. 2026-10-07 02:46 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-07 02:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  24. 2026-10-06 22:42 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-06 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
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  1. 2026-10-06 17:21 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-06 17:21 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-06 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  4. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  5. 2026-10-06 13:18 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-06 13:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  7. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-06 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-06 09:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  10. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  11. 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-05 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  13. 2026-10-05 12:36 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-05 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  15. 2026-10-05 06:50 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-05 06:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  17. 2026-10-05 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-05 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-05 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  20. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  21. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-04 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  23. 2026-10-04 16:30 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  25. 2026-10-04 12:11 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-04 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  27. 2026-10-04 07:37 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-04 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  29. 2026-10-04 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-04 03:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  31. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-03 19:36 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-03 19:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  34. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  35. 2026-10-03 01:48 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-03 01:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  37. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-02 21:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  40. 2026-10-02 15:54 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-02 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  42. 2026-10-02 07:12 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-02 07:12 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-02 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  45. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  46. 2026-10-01 13:55 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-01 13:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  48. 2026-10-01 09:54 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-01 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  50. 2026-10-01 05:52 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-01 05:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  52. 2026-10-01 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-01 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  54. 2026-09-30 21:11 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-09-30 21:11 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-09-30 21:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  57. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  58. 2026-09-29 08:19 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-29 08:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  60. 2026-09-29 04:16 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-29 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  62. 2026-09-29 00:14 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-29 00:14 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-29 00:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  65. 2026-09-28 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-28 15:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  67. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  68. 2026-09-28 11:10 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-28 11:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  70. 2026-09-28 07:08 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-28 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  72. 2026-09-28 03:07 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-28 03:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  74. 2026-09-27 23:05 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-27 23:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72289?
CVE-2026-72289 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it vgicpruneaplist() drops both aplistlock and irqlock while migrating an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks that the affinity…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72289 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72289 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-2026-72289 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72289 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (7th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72289?
CVE-2026-72289 has a CVSS base score of 9.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72289?
A fix for CVE-2026-72289 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72289 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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