CVE-2026-72292

UNRATEDCVSS · not yet scoredTrending — 5 sources updated this week
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:

KVM: s390: Initialize KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS memory

kvm_s390_get_cmma_bits() allocates its output buffer with vmalloc(), which does not zero the returned pages:

values = vmalloc(args->count);

In the non-peek (migration) path, dat_get_cmma() reports a byte count spanning from the first to the last dirty page, but __dat_get_cmma_pte() writes values[gfn - start] only for pages whose CMMA dirty bit is set. The walk uses DAT_WALK_IGN_HOLES, so clean and unmapped pages that lie between two dirty pages within the reported span are visited but never store their byte. Those gaps (up to KVM_S390_MAX_BIT_DISTANCE pages each) stay uninitialized yet fall inside [0, count) and are copied out by copy_to_user(), disclosing stale kernel memory to user space.

Before the switch to the new gmap implementation the buffer was fully populated for every gfn in the span, so no uninitialized bytes were exposed; the dirty-only walk introduced the leak.

Use vzalloc() so the gaps read back as zero.

CVSS v3
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
EG Risk
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
10%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72292(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 04:22 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 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-17 06:18 UTCNVD update
  9. 2026-08-17 05:30 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-17 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-17 05:24 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 06:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-15 06:23 UTCNVD update
  17. 2026-08-15 06:08 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-15 06:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2026-72292?
CVE-2026-72292 is a publicly disclosed vulnerability published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: Initialize KVMS390GETCMMABITS memory kvms390getcmmabits() allocates its output buffer with vmalloc(), which does not zero the returned pages: values = vmalloc(args->count); In the non-peek (migration) path, datgetcmma()…
When was CVE-2026-72292 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72292 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-2026-72292 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72292 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 90.1% of all scored CVEs.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72292?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-72292, 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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