CVE-2026-72694

HIGHPre-NVD 7.17.1—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-11. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID (PID) file path, the attacker can trick the root process into changing the ownership of an arbitrary existing file to the daemon user. This can lead to local privilege escalation, allowing unauthorized access to or modification of sensitive files.

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

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
Severity71% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
5th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack 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 (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 11, 2026

Last Modified

September 9, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2460973 – (CVE-2026-72694) CVE-2026-72694 mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID file path manipulation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460973
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-72694 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-72694

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72694(4)

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

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatmrtg-0:2.17.7-1.el8_10.12026-09-09redhat
redhatmrtg-0:2.17.10-12.el10_2.12026-08-20redhat
redhatmrtg-0:2.17.7-12.el9_8.12026-08-20redhat

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
mrtg2.17.10-10 ... 2.17.10-9 (14 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
mrtg2.17.10-13, 2.17.10-13+deb13u1
  • every version up to 2.17.10-13+deb13u2: fixed in 2.17.10-13+deb13u2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
mrtg2.17.10-13, 2.17.10-14
  • every version up to 2.17.10-15: fixed in 2.17.10-15
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 139× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 272 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72694?
CVE-2026-72694 is a high vulnerability published on August 11, 2026. A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID (PID) file path, the attacker can…
When was CVE-2026-72694 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72694 was first published on August 11, 2026, with the most recent update on September 9, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-72694 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72694 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (5th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72694?
CVE-2026-72694 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-2026-72694?
A fix for CVE-2026-72694 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72694 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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