7.8

CVE-2026-81010: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-81010DEBIAN-CVE-2026-81010
Published 11-09-2026Last modified 19-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-81010 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · +0.05 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11805-1

Timeline

  1. 11-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/waitid: honor task_work cancellation io_waitid_cb() may run through the fallback task_work path when task_work_add() can no longer queue work to the originating task. The fallback runs from a kworker and io_uring marks such task work as canceled through tw.cancel. io_waitid_cb() currently ignores tw.cancel and calls __do_wait(). waitid is task-context dependent: __do_wait() performs child lookup relative to current, and the retry path also uses current->signal->wait_chldexit. If the callback runs from the fallback kworker, current is therefore not the task that submitted the request. Honor tw.cancel before entering __do_wait(). Complete the request with -ECANCELED and skip the siginfo copy, since canceled task work may run without the submitting task's userspace execution context. Keep the existing siginfo handling for normal waitid completion and explicit cancellation.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.05 pp

From 0.13% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
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

Ubuntu142 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.2.6-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b, < 0879697520abda2383ed7be40572ad583b5c4b02 | ≥ f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b, < 7bc98e2de8c58a2bfaf0f540eb096a386ecfc96c | ≥ f31ecf671ddc498f20219453395794ff2383e06b, < 14572de82e5022899e5856008bc9cac97004a88c | 6.7

3 vendors · 144 products

References

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