8.4

CVE-2026-74604: linux

CVSS: 8.4v3.1HighReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-74604DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74604
Published 22-08-2026Last modified 16-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-74604 is a high (CVSS 8.4) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.4/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.14%
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 7 · Related 6
MGASA-2026-0506USN-8875-1USN-8875-2USN-8877-1USN-8878-1USN-8879-1

Timeline

  1. 22-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit" Revert commit 030a48b0f6ce ("thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit") that introduced a use-after-free into the error path of thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() by removing a valid check from it.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.14%

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

Ubuntu157 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-198.208 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1117.124 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • linux< 6.1.187-1 | < 6.12.105-1 | < 7.1.9-1
  • linux-6.12< 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < 2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11 | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < b4c01ae6dd56d9dfd96bd1b29c28afa8fa06b366 | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < 999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < 6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < 8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0 | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < 6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4 | ≥ 030a48b0f6ce393d78b8d33debb1e2043b8cc156, < ff8da20b6f47c48d46e47f93f7a59e2d56ee9107 | 5.11

3 vendors · 160 products

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