CVE-2026-80962

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 2026-09-11. 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 — 3 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: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info

cache_segs_init() iterates cache_info->n_segs times indexing cache->segments[], which is sized to the cache device geometry, and get_seg_id() takes each segment id from the on-media cache_info and the per-segment next_seg link. Both come from cache device metadata that is only CRC-protected with a fixed public seed, so whoever supplies the cache device on a table load (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) controls them: an oversized n_segs or an out-of-range id drives an out-of-bounds access of cache->segments[] and a wild CACHE_DEV_SEGMENT() pointer into the device mapping -- an out-of-bounds read and write from on-disk data.

Reject an n_segs that exceeds the device segment count and a segment id that is out of range before either is used. Valid metadata is unaffected.

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 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)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 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
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
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

September 11, 2026

Last Modified

September 13, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 13, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d1809da31094ef76fd98dc1f1a8b55ca1295dd
Web page

dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e19172089ec81132a8a48e802b1034a744209f4
Web page

dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab5dcde6fa96bc115b85f3621c60e39c66229a90

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-80962(1)

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

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (178 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.6-1: fixed in 7.2.6-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 111× 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 122 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 22 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  5. 2026-10-12 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-10-11 19:21 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 16:37 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 14:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-11 13:55 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-10 23:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  13. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  14. 2026-10-10 08:25 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-10 08:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  17. 2026-10-09 19:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-08 23:29 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-08 23:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  20. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  21. 2026-10-08 09:12 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-08 09:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  23. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  24. 2026-10-07 20:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-07 07:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-06 18:17 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-06 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  5. 2026-10-06 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  7. 2026-10-05 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-05 03:22 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-05 03:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  10. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  11. 2026-10-04 14:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-10-04 01:07 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-04 01:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  15. 2026-10-03 12:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-02 22:51 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-02 22:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  19. 2026-10-02 09:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  20. 2026-10-01 20:56 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-01 20:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  23. 2026-10-01 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  24. 2026-09-30 19:00 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-30 19:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  26. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  27. 2026-09-30 06:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  28. 2026-09-29 17:06 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-29 17:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  31. 2026-09-29 03:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  33. 2026-09-28 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  34. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  36. 2026-09-28 01:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  37. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  38. 2026-09-27 12:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  40. 2026-09-26 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  43. 2026-09-26 10:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  44. 2026-09-26 00:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  45. 2026-09-25 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  46. 2026-09-25 04:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  48. 2026-09-24 15:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  51. 2026-09-24 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  53. 2026-09-23 13:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  55. 2026-09-23 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  57. 2026-09-22 11:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  59. 2026-09-21 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  61. 2026-09-21 09:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  63. 2026-09-20 20:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  65. 2026-09-20 08:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  67. 2026-09-19 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  71. 2026-09-18 16:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  73. 2026-09-18 03:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mv2p-grx7-v5rf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-80962?
CVE-2026-80962 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 11, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-pcache: validate geometry fields from on-disk cache_info cachesegsinit() iterates cacheinfo->nsegs times indexing cache->segments[], which is sized to the cache device geometry, and getsegid() takes each segment id from the…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-80962 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-80962 was published on September 11, 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 September 13, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-80962 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-80962 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-80962?
CVE-2026-80962 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-2026-80962?
A fix for CVE-2026-80962 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-80962 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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