CVE-2026-74255

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; 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
9.8EG
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: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg()

Syzbot reported a slab-use-after-free in ipvlan_hard_header() when called from tipc_l2_send_msg().

The root cause is that tipc_disable_l2_media() calls synchronize_net() while b->media_ptr is still valid. This allows concurrent RCU readers to obtain the device pointer after synchronize_net() has finished. The pointer is cleared later in bearer_disable(), but without any subsequent synchronization, allowing the device to be freed while still in use by readers.

Fix this by clearing b->media_ptr in tipc_disable_l2_media() before calling synchronize_net().

This is safe to do now because the call order in bearer_disable() was reversed in 0d051bf93c06 ("tipc: make bearer packet filtering generic") to call tipc_node_delete_links() (which needs the pointer) before disable_media().

https: //lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/T/#u

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

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)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.7% × 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
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
53rd
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 13, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4c3d89fc986b0da196ddfc6cfe0ea5d5d08bec6
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4002f1c669cc02e3763f479fc25ff1dfa9e2420
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aef12b5ce793dea6b3a97a58fd0f946000ae8945
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71aafa16d79b107b33837f60b6cbc7d0cb8c5708
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/609ced2301be1df7e7ed2ef47d1d916674e6ba3b
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50ff092633b06382e5091dd5b093ce943d4ac2f9
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35e0297a93c3c34a3924eeef816c03504e3ab5c5
Web page

tipc: fix UAF in tipc_l2_send_msg() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d8a12d7143126afdf9fbe2e3d438650dd6603ed

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-74255(1)

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

Patch Availability(13)

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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All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 218× 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 434 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 334 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-14 09:12 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-14 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  4. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-13 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  8. 2026-10-12 15:40 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-12 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-11 19:26 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 16:41 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 14:01 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  14. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  15. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  16. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  17. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  18. 2026-10-07 07:26 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-07 07:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-07 02:46 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-07 02:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-06 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-06 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-06 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-06 17:30 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-06 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-06 13:20 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-06 13:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-06 09:12 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-06 09:12 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-06 09:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  9. 2026-10-05 17:34 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-05 17:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-05 12:16 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-05 12:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-05 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-05 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-05 02:24 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-05 02:24 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-05 02:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-04 21:59 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-04 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-04 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-04 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-04 12:04 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 12:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-04 07:41 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-04 07:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-04 03:33 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-04 03:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-03 19:33 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-03 19:33 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-03 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  32. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  33. 2026-10-03 01:55 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-03 01:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  35. 2026-10-02 21:46 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-02 21:46 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-02 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-02 15:52 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-02 15:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-02 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-02 07:06 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-02 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  44. 2026-10-01 14:09 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-01 14:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  46. 2026-10-01 09:59 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-01 09:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  48. 2026-10-01 05:51 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-01 05:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-01 01:34 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-01 01:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-09-30 21:02 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-30 21:02 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-30 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  56. 2026-09-29 08:22 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-29 08:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-09-29 04:13 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-29 04:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  60. 2026-09-29 00:04 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-29 00:04 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-29 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  64. 2026-09-28 11:25 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-28 11:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-09-28 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-28 07:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  68. 2026-09-28 03:07 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-28 03:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-09-27 22:48 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-27 22:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  72. 2026-09-27 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-27 16:47 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-27 16:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-76v9-jpj5-v4rq · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  75. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-74255?
CVE-2026-74255 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix UAF in tipcl2send_msg() Syzbot reported a slab-use-after-free in ipvlanhardheader() when called from tipcl2send_msg(). The root cause is that tipcdisablel2media() calls synchronizenet() while b->media_ptr is still valid.…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-74255 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-74255 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-2026-74255 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-74255 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (53rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-74255?
CVE-2026-74255 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-74255?
A fix for CVE-2026-74255 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-74255 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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