CVE-2026-72440

HIGHPre-NVD 7.17.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.1; 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
7.1EG
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: 0.5%CVSS: 7.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures

raid1_make_request() acquires a writes_pending reference with md_write_start() before calling raid1_write_request(). Several failure paths in raid1_write_request() complete the bio and return without reaching the normal write completion path, causing the corresponding md_write_end() to be skipped.

Make raid1_write_request() return a status indicating whether the write request was successfully queued. This allows raid1_make_request() to call md_write_end() when raid1_write_request() fails.

Additionally, if wait_blocked_rdev() fails after wait_barrier() succeeds, the associated barrier reference is not released.

Call allow_barrier() before returning from that path to keep the barrier accounting balanced.

CVSS v3
7.1
EG Score
7.1HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
32
EG Risk 32/100

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)
Severity71% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
38th
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 (7.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. 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 every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 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 every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 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 Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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 (2)

Auto-updated Aug 17, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bffbbfcbd9393e315a7a4286dcd70e875265db9a
Web page

md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e065a1602511282fc0da2dc89445e0eb71a681c

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72440(2)

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

Patch Availability(7)

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 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (358 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (181 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
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

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 102× 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 98 of 246 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. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 148 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 0.5% · 38th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  5. 2026-10-16 19:42 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-16 19:42 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-16 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  8. 2026-10-16 19:04 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-16 19:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  10. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  11. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  12. 2026-10-15 11:31 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-15 11:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  14. 2026-10-15 10:29 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-15 10:29 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-15 10:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  17. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  18. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  19. 2026-10-13 08:14 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-13 08:14 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-13 08:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  22. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  23. 2026-10-12 15:41 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-06 22:36 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-06 22:36 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-06 22:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  10. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  11. 2026-10-06 09:13 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-06 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  13. 2026-10-05 20:54 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-05 20:54 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-05 20:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  16. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  17. 2026-10-05 09:41 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-05 09:41 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-05 09:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  20. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  21. 2026-10-04 22:01 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-04 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  23. 2026-10-04 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  25. 2026-10-03 19:33 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-03 19:33 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-03 19:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  28. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  29. 2026-10-02 18:22 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-02 18:22 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-02 18:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  32. 2026-10-02 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-02 07:09 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-02 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  35. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  36. 2026-10-01 08:30 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-01 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  38. 2026-09-30 21:06 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-30 21:06 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-30 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  41. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  42. 2026-09-29 00:06 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-29 00:06 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-29 00:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  45. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  46. 2026-09-28 10:16 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-28 10:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  48. 2026-09-27 22:55 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-27 22:55 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-27 22:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  51. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
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  53. 2026-09-27 08:35 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-27 08:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  55. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  56. 2026-09-25 02:38 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-25 02:38 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-25 02:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  59. 2026-09-24 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-24 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  61. 2026-09-23 20:34 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-23 20:34 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-23 20:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
  64. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  65. 2026-09-23 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-09-23 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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  72. 2026-09-21 20:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-jh9h-wfxq-pfm4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.1
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72440?
CVE-2026-72440 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid1: fix writes_pending and barrier reference leaks on write failures raid1makerequest() acquires a writes_pending reference with mdwritestart() before calling raid1writerequest(). Several failure paths in raid1writerequest()…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72440 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72440 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-2026-72440 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72440 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (38th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72440?
CVE-2026-72440 has a CVSS base score of 7.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72440?
A fix for CVE-2026-72440 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72440 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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