CVE-2026-72305: VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace

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AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-72305DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72305
Published 15-08-2026Last modified 23-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72305 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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 17 · Related 17
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22167-1SUSE-SU-2026:24371-1SUSE-SU-2026:24379-1SUSE-SU-2026:24386-1SUSE-SU-2026:24422-1SUSE-SU-2026:24437-1

Timeline

  1. 15-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VDUSE: avoid leaking information to userspace The bounceing is not necessarily page aligned, so current VDUSE can leak kernel information through mapping bounce pages to userspace. Allocate bounce pages with __GFP_ZERO to avoid leaking information to userspace.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
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: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu157 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-147.147 | < 7.0.0-38.38
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1067.70 | < 7.0.0-1014.14
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • linux< 6.1.187-1 | < 6.12.101-1 | < 7.1.5-1
  • linux-6.12< 6.12.101-1~deb12u1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 41e27a6aca608c9e04f091c29c420d03fafe0313 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 3ae878f262bd1445c8c31511856a99962a05fe16 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < fde25641cbddd0c084e3320d08f755e7e6acfae5 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 5e88c1bc3a41d9a260dd42bae8ad18fd4f35bbe1 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 690fb82c4122f8c2656fa4f842275132771b68b9 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 00335df9da2011e095f846d645cc2e9fd2907659 | ≥ 8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c, < 9c1523803445ee0348f62b77793266dd981596e0 | 5.15

3 vendors · 160 products

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