In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_tables: clean up hook list when offload flags check fails
splice back the hook list so nft_chain_release_hook() has a chance to
release the hooks.
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810180b100 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor133", pid 3619, jiffies 4294945714 (age 12.690s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
28 64 23 02 81 88 ff ff 28 64 23 02 81 88 ff ff (d#.....(d#.....
90 a8 aa 83 ff ff ff ff 00 00 b5 0f 81 88 ff ff ................
backtrace:
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
[] nft_netdev_hook_alloc+0x3b/0xc0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1901
[] nft_chain_parse_netdev net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:1998 [inline]
[] nft_chain_parse_hook+0x33a/0x530 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2073
[] nf_tables_addchain.constprop.0+0x10b/0x950 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2218
[] nf_tables_newchain+0xa8b/0xc60 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:2593
[] nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xa46/0xd20 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:517
[] nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:638 [inline]
[] nfnetlink_rcv+0x1f9/0x220 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:656
[] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
[] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
[] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
[] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
[] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734
[] ____sys_sendmsg+0x36c/0x390 net/socket.c:2482
[] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536
[] __sys_sendmsg+0x88/0x100 net/socket.c:2565
[] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-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 2026-10-25). 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