CVE-2026-74720

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-22. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; 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
7.8EG
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: 0.1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic

When scalar += pointer is handled in adjust_ptr_min_max_vals(), the destination register inherits the pointer state from the source pointer. Copying only selected fields is fragile because pointer provenance is tracked by several bpf_reg_state fields.

Use the caller's temporary offset register to preserve the scalar operand while replacing the destination with the full pointer state. This preserves the frame number for PTR_TO_STACK registers and keeps parent identity fields consistent.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

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)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.1% × 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
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 (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 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 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). 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)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 Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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 22, 2026

Last Modified

October 16, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Aug 25, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4c6f804b44c5c790269b25e0e61cf4e9f117c86
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaffa1495e4fe6330aeff9f323ea3d48b01f118a
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db6382ed3361bdd8129572a3423956cba1dae829
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29c239f8dbec5ab33a61796724d189bddee6cd4b
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cb23101a3fcc7432b451ea3d0f14a90711f4acf
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1959028190a7649b926f5867a58de5fe221b23c
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8109c25e0c41f5f19a1c2380bb49c991a877494e
Web page

bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86b203aadc2930e0a4f9c6277b5b80ff3664c472

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-74720(2)

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

Patch Availability(6)

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

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (56 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.187-1: fixed in 6.1.187-1
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linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1, 6.12.101-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.107-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (33 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.105-1: fixed in 6.12.105-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (167 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.9-1: fixed in 7.1.9-1
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Additional Vendor Advisories

(6)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 124× 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 238 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 138 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 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-18 03:14 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-16 20:29 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-16 20:29 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-16 20:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-16 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-16 19:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  10. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  11. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  13. 2026-10-14 13:33 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-14 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  16. 2026-10-13 07:30 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-13 07:30 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-13 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  20. 2026-10-12 15:39 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-11 19:25 UTCEG score recompute
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  24. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  25. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-10 14:25 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-10 14:25 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-10 14:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-09 05:09 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-09 05:09 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-09 05:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  9. 2026-10-08 04:35 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-08 04:35 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-08 04:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  13. 2026-10-07 05:43 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-07 05:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-06 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-06 16:43 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-06 16:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-06 02:59 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-06 02:59 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-06 02:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-05 09:45 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-05 09:45 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-05 09:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  26. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  27. 2026-10-04 20:45 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-04 20:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  29. 2026-10-04 05:35 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-04 05:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  31. 2026-10-03 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-03 16:35 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-03 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  34. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  35. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-03 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  38. 2026-10-02 12:54 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-02 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  40. 2026-10-01 22:43 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-01 22:43 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-01 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  43. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  44. 2026-10-01 09:25 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-01 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  46. 2026-09-30 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-09-30 20:25 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-09-30 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  49. 2026-09-30 07:24 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-09-30 07:24 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-30 07:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  52. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  53. 2026-09-29 15:22 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-29 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  55. 2026-09-28 21:34 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-09-28 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-28 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  58. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  59. 2026-09-28 03:46 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-28 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  61. 2026-09-27 14:35 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-27 14:35 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-27 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  64. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  65. 2026-09-27 00:57 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-27 00:57 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-27 00:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  68. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  70. 2026-09-25 16:57 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-25 16:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  72. 2026-09-25 00:30 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-09-25 00:30 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-25 00:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6hg3-qqfj-f5ww · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  75. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-74720?
CVE-2026-74720 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 22, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic When scalar += pointer is handled in adjustptrminmaxvals(), the destination register inherits the pointer state from the source pointer. Copying only selected fields is fragile…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-74720 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-74720 was published on August 22, 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-2026-74720 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-74720 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-74720?
CVE-2026-74720 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-74720?
A fix for CVE-2026-74720 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-74720 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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