5.5

CVE-2026-46073: hwmon: (powerz) Fix missing usb_kill_urb() on signal interrupt

Undergoing analysis
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-46073DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46073
Published 27-05-2026Last modified 14-06-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-46073 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.12%
0%100%
Low · -0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 27
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10954-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21555-1SUSE-SU-2026:23066-1SUSE-SU-2026:23068-1SUSE-SU-2026:23221-1SUSE-SU-2026:23231-1

Timeline

  1. 27-05-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (powerz) Fix missing usb_kill_urb() on signal interrupt wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() returns -ERESTARTSYS when interrupted. This needs to abort the URB and return an error. No data has been received from the device so any reads from the transfer buffer are invalid. The original code tests !ret, which only catches the timeout case (0). On signal delivery (-ERESTARTSYS), !ret is false so the function skips usb_kill_urb() and falls through to read from the unfilled transfer buffer. Fix by capturing the return value into a long (matching the function return type) and handling signal (negative) and timeout (zero) cases with separate checks that both call usb_kill_urb() before returning.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Decrease -0.04 pp

From 0.16% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu132 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-136.136 | All versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-27.27
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1061.64 | All versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-1008.8
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20, < 8b51277eec433d4e724b273a5a5c64e8acfbe405 | ≥ 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20, < b6cb07f02253bdefd2339e57eaa1428a7b28cd0f | ≥ 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20, < d64458784036f5818e22781254b6be299d52a19c | ≥ 4381a36abdf1c5c0323c1c51f869dc000115eb20, < b66437cb20a2d9ef201f40b675569f8ea7787c9f | 6.7
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.86 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.27 | ≥ 6.19, < 7.0.4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.86-1 | < 7.0.4-1

3 vendors · 135 products

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