7.8

CVE-2026-89472: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighReceived
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-89472DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89472
Published 11-09-2026Last modified 21-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-89472 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.2% 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
0.16%
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 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1

Timeline

  1. 11-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: charger-manager: register regulators before exposing sysfs charger_manager_remove() and the err_reg_extcon probe error path free each charger regulator with regulator_put() before tearing down the power_supply sysfs entries (power_supply_unregister()). charger_manager_remove() also calls try_charger_enable(cm, false) after the regulator_put() loop. A concurrent write to a charger's externally_control sysfs attribute that lands between regulator_put() and power_supply_unregister() can run charger_externally_control_store() and call try_charger_enable(), which, when charging is enabled, dereferences the already-freed consumer handle. When charging is enabled, try_charger_enable(cm, false) in .remove() also dereferences the freed handles directly. Both leave use-after-free windows. Symmetrically, probe registers the sysfs entries (power_supply_register) before acquiring the regulators (regulator_get, inside charger_manager_register_extcon), so userspace can reach externally_control before the regulators are available. Split charger_manager_register_extcon() on the sync/async boundary: charger_manager_get_regulators() (regulator_get only, no async producer) now runs before power_supply_register() so sysfs is not live before regulators are available, and charger_manager_register_extcon() keeps only the extcon notifier/work setup, still after power_supply_register() so a power_supply_register() failure cannot reach extcon setup. This keeps the sysfs setup/teardown ordering symmetric without introducing an asynchronous producer on the earlier probe-error path. Move power_supply_unregister() and try_charger_enable(cm, false) ahead of the regulator_put() loop on both teardown paths, and adjust err_reg_extcon (power_supply_unregister() then fall through err_regulator for regulator_put(); get_regulators self-rolls back on its own failure). This does not address the separate extcon-notifier-driven deref of the same handles, which needs its own synchronization design. Found by an in-house static analysis tool.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

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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

Ubuntu169 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)
Debian2 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.111-1 | < 7.2.6-1
  • linux-6.12< 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 3950c7865cd7c963982a2c94457182b96732f4c9, < 6e1645a6ee85d070c2d8dd847f1ce110dc2455c1 | ≥ 3950c7865cd7c963982a2c94457182b96732f4c9, < af3ce383ba0d0d48957a22ac7058ff5698775898 | ≥ 3950c7865cd7c963982a2c94457182b96732f4c9, < 86e4fa65368f3bbb506dddba8c9eedc75bd603b2 | ≥ 3950c7865cd7c963982a2c94457182b96732f4c9, < 6d532582ff3c420598f02945b13184c738cc1581 | ≥ 3950c7865cd7c963982a2c94457182b96732f4c9, < c57cb36f76eb7ced45f57af1a890d8f3a6d76342 | 3.7

3 vendors · 172 products

References

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