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CVE-2026-72496: Linux 6.5
CVE-2026-72496. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.2 (CRITICAL, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00189 (percentile 0.07733), scored 03-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f to before 00444baa8f74d220764ee5903f60759c120cabd5, 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f to before 3c69ff7f4a761e18ce8abfa0c98e12097b39adaa, 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f to before f956477c343aa73e9d9c8d6ebf32efac7cd4f4e2, 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f to before 303f6fef95df5e5316970746d861cf6daeeca77f, 0ac20faf5d837b59fb4c041ea320932ed47fd67f to before 87267803a8c824616eb147c5dad7030a5db6f878
Linux
Linux · 6.5
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_res.c
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Local · No privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 9.2/10) rates confidentiality impact as low; integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CCR priority
- 36.8 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.2 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.00137 · percentile 0.02757 · 2026-10-15
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-16 09:43:43.583708+00:00 UTC
- GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 06:01:24.332572+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-16 19:24:35.956875+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-72496.html