In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c
The syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A
zero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a
write. In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:
usb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted
6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google
01/12/2023
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
...
Call Trace:
usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
__usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010
usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068
pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline]
pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline]
pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85
usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889
__dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417
__dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530
dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602
devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147
inet_ioctl+0x33f/0x380 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:979
sock_do_ioctl+0xcc/0x230 net/socket.c:1169
sock_ioctl+0x1f8/0x680 net/socket.c:1286
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The fix is to call usbnet_write_cmd() instead of usbnet_read_cmd() and
remove the USB_DIR_IN flag.
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
- 0.3% 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