In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix pcluster use-after-free on UP platforms
During stress testing with CONFIG_SMP disabled, KASAN reports as below:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881094223f8 by task stress/7789
CPU: 0 PID: 7789 Comm: stress Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00002-g0d53d2e882f9 #3
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
..
__mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30
..
z_erofs_do_read_page+0x8ce/0x1560
..
z_erofs_readahead+0x31c/0x580
..
Freed by task 7787
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
kasan_set_track+0x20/0x30
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40
__kasan_slab_free+0x10c/0x190
kmem_cache_free+0xed/0x380
rcu_core+0x3d5/0xc90
__do_softirq+0x12d/0x389
Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0x97/0xb0
call_rcu+0x3d/0x3f0
erofs_shrink_workstation+0x11f/0x210
erofs_shrink_scan+0xdc/0x170
shrink_slab.constprop.0+0x296/0x530
drop_slab+0x1c/0x70
drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x70/0x80
proc_sys_call_handler+0x20a/0x2f0
vfs_write+0x555/0x6c0
ksys_write+0xbe/0x160
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
The root cause is that erofs_workgroup_unfreeze() doesn't reset to
orig_val thus it causes a race that the pcluster reuses unexpectedly
before freeing.
Since UP platforms are quite rare now, such path becomes unnecessary.
Let's drop such specific-designed path directly instead.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it