In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/rxe: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup() when socket create failed
There is a null-ptr-deref when mount.cifs over rdma:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup+0x2f3/0x360 [rdma_rxe]
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000018 by task mount.cifs/3046
CPU: 2 PID: 3046 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5+ #62
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc3
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
kasan_report+0xad/0x130
rxe_qp_do_cleanup+0x2f3/0x360 [rdma_rxe]
execute_in_process_context+0x25/0x90
__rxe_cleanup+0x101/0x1d0 [rdma_rxe]
rxe_create_qp+0x16a/0x180 [rdma_rxe]
create_qp.part.0+0x27d/0x340
ib_create_qp_kernel+0x73/0x160
rdma_create_qp+0x100/0x230
_smbd_get_connection+0x752/0x20f0
smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40
cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0
mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750
cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0
smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
__x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The root cause of the issue is the socket create failed in
rxe_qp_init_req().
So move the reset rxe_qp_do_cleanup() after the NULL ptr check.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-30). 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 low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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 low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (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