CVE-2026-72703

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.36.3
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
6.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.3Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The guard checker in Rocq Prover treats a parameter of a nested mutual fixpoint as uniform without examining calls between the different bodies of that fixpoint. find_uniform_parameters in kernel/inductive.ml inspects only self-recursive calls, so when no body calls itself the function concludes that every parameter is uniform. A parameter that grows through a cross-call from one body to another therefore keeps the subterm specification it inherited from the enclosing fixpoint, and a recursive call guarded by that specification is accepted although the argument is not structurally smaller. A non-terminating definition is admitted as structurally decreasing, which yields a term whose value equals its own successor and so a proof of False, from which any proposition follows. The proof requires no axioms, plugins or unsafe flags and Print Assumptions reports it as closed under the global context. Introduced in Coq 8.20 and fixed in Rocq 9.2.0.

CVSS v3
6.3
EG Score
6.3(high)
EG Risk
33(Track)
EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track

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
Severity63% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
2%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 24, 2026

Last Modified

August 24, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 24, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_pr.
generic

Rocq Prover 8.20 before 9.2.0 Guard Checker Accepts Non-Terminating Fixpoint via Unchecked Cross-Calls | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rocq-prover-before-guard-checker-accepts-non-terminating-fixpoint-via-unchecked-cross-calls
github_pr Patch Available

Fix issues with uniform arguments of inner fixpoints in guard condition

Patch available: rocq-prover/rocq V9.3+rc1 (PR #21684 merged 2026-03-04)

https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/pull/21684
generic

Guard checker soundness bug: cross-calls in nested mutual fixpoints · Issue #21682 · rocq-prover/rocq · GitHub

https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/issues/21682
generic

GitHub - rocq-prover/rocq: The Rocq Prover is an interactive theorem prover, or proof assistant. It provides a formal language to write mathematical definitions, executable algorithms and theorems together with an environment for semi-interactive development of machine-checked proofs. · GitHub

https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq
generic

GitHub - endrazine/rocq-cve-poc-21682 · GitHub

https://github.com/endrazine/rocq-cve-poc-21682

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72703(1)

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

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 6× 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. 2026-08-25 21:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-25 21:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-24 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-24 20:11 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-24 20:11 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72703?
CVE-2026-72703 is a medium vulnerability published on August 24, 2026. The guard checker in Rocq Prover treats a parameter of a nested mutual fixpoint as uniform without examining calls between the different bodies of that fixpoint. finduniformparameters in kernel/inductive.ml inspects only self-recursive calls, so when no body calls itself the function concludes that…
When was CVE-2026-72703 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72703 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 24, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-72703 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72703 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 98.0% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72703?
CVE-2026-72703 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72703?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-72703, 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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