What is GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7?

GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index entries...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7 cover?

GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-72201. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7?

GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7CriticalCVSS 9.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: validate index entries...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-72201 →

📋 Description

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

ntfs: validate index entries on reading

Validate index entries immediately after reading an index root or index block from disk. This eliminates repeated checks in lookup and readdir, and reduce the risk of missing checks in those paths.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72201
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2221b691d7b2e17f08153f95848dacaa5d87e21d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2b95d3adb558ddd5685f9e072ec8661d57ee3a9
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-689w-8rx2-mjx7