9.3

CVE-2026-72289: linux

CVSS: 9.3v3.1CriticalReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-72289DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72289
Published 15-08-2026Last modified 16-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72289 is a critical (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.3/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 33 · Related 31
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21910-1RHSA-2026:76739RHSA-2026:81406SUSE-SU-2026:23477-1SUSE-SU-2026:23481-1SUSE-SU-2026:23528-1

Timeline

  1. 15-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it vgic_prune_ap_list() drops both ap_list_lock and irq_lock while migrating an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks that the affinity is unchanged (target_vcpu == vgic_target_oracle(irq)) before moving the interrupt, which assumes that an interrupt whose affinity is preserved is still queued on this vCPU's ap_list. That assumption no longer holds if the interrupt is taken off the ap_list while the locks are dropped. vgic_flush_pending_lpis() removes the interrupt from the list and sets irq->vcpu to NULL, but leaves enabled/pending/target_vcpu untouched. As the interrupt is still enabled and pending, vgic_target_oracle() returns the same target_vcpu, so the affinity check passes and list_del() is run a second time on an entry that has already been removed. Also check that the interrupt is still assigned to this vCPU (irq->vcpu == vcpu) before moving it.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

8%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu168 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-198.208 | < 6.8.0-147.147 | < 7.0.0-34.34
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1117.124 | < 6.8.0-1067.70 | < 7.0.0-1013.13
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.180-1 | < 6.12.100-1 | < 7.1.5-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < 3893e1fcf6f306b327a8358dcd1cbd077989a240 | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < cb3efe1a354f1638726725c3ecee1ce8d1a7e2dc | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < da2d249a39a1881681c303ceea33f38ba1c5bbeb | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < 654be81c4c637af12709d47c7efc3302cd336513 | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < e363c0bc0226dc5ea5046a88e9a6864b82c45399 | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < 79fdd2aa774e44847cd9bb7edc811e73e3dc7bfe | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < 0658b09cba7fe866c6cd70cd2dcdfdcabe80328f | ≥ 0919e84c0fc1fc73525fdcedefab89ea8460f697, < 0074b82cdfcb5fd13710a0ac308ade68ac6f6fbe | 4.7

3 vendors · 170 products

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