CVE-2026-89890

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-16. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

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

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

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release

go7007_snd_init() already takes a v4l2_device reference for the ALSA side, but go7007_snd_remove() drops it immediately after calling snd_card_free_when_closed().

That is too early when a userspace process still has the capture PCM open. The ALSA card and its PCM callbacks remain alive until the last file is closed, so the release path can still reach struct go7007 through pcm->private_data and call go7007_snd_hw_free() after the V4L2 release path has freed the object.

Move the matching v4l2_device_put() to the ALSA card private_free callback so the existing ALSA reference covers the whole deferred card lifetime.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA 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
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). 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

September 16, 2026

Last Modified

September 16, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6f1a1ac9b8ccabfec548aef0d0d93eaf4dba4f4
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7a0de398ad510426db9c8e96c516ef7abf48b0e
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c4f9628b8558c87903492a777834cc5be14ded3
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29fe4d38fb59ec28ca656cb2dabc2b0f78e78980
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9fdd9465211432d5c0ff70caaec0be245823d5
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c57d1a3396b2d767d58f10dff09bb397586c714
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bd456afeb8a515137e567967069fce6f8fcd23e
generic

media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0745a59945d927652d892437f9647ed6e87c0677

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-89890(2)

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

Affected Packages

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1, 6.12.101-1~deb12u1, 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (35 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1: fixed in 6.12.111-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (179 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.6-1: fixed in 7.2.6-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 40× in last 7d / 116× 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 116 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-89890?
CVE-2026-89890 is a high vulnerability published on September 16, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: go7007: defer the ALSA v4l2 put until card release go7007sndinit() already takes a v4l2_device reference for the ALSA side, but go7007sndremove() drops it immediately after calling sndcardfreewhenclosed(). That is too early…
When was CVE-2026-89890 disclosed?
CVE-2026-89890 was first published on September 16, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-89890 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-89890 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-2026-89890?
CVE-2026-89890 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-2026-89890?
No fix for CVE-2026-89890 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-89890 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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