CVE-2026-72289

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-59188 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it

vgic_prune_ap_list() drops both ap_list_lock and irq_lock while migrating an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks that the affinity is unchanged (target_vcpu == vgic_target_oracle(irq)) before moving the interrupt, which assumes that an interrupt whose affinity is preserved is still queued on this vCPU's ap_list.

That assumption no longer holds if the interrupt is taken off the ap_list while the locks are dropped. vgic_flush_pending_lpis() removes the interrupt from the list and sets irq->vcpu to NULL, but leaves enabled/pending/target_vcpu untouched. As the interrupt is still enabled and pending, vgic_target_oracle() returns the same target_vcpu, so the affinity check passes and list_del() is run a second time on an entry that has already been removed.

Also check that the interrupt is still assigned to this vCPU (irq->vcpu == vcpu) before moving it.

CVSS v3
9.3
EG Score
9.3CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
8th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 CRITICALCVSS-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 2026-11-01). 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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; 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 total (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

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

October 16, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e363c0bc0226dc5ea5046a88e9a6864b82c45399
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KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da2d249a39a1881681c303ceea33f38ba1c5bbeb
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb3efe1a354f1638726725c3ecee1ce8d1a7e2dc
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79fdd2aa774e44847cd9bb7edc811e73e3dc7bfe
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654be81c4c637af12709d47c7efc3302cd336513
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3893e1fcf6f306b327a8358dcd1cbd077989a240
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0658b09cba7fe866c6cd70cd2dcdfdcabe80328f
Web page

KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0074b82cdfcb5fd13710a0ac308ade68ac6f6fbe

Patch Availability(19)

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (55 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.180-1: fixed in 6.1.180-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (31 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.100-1: fixed in 6.12.100-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (160 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.5-1: fixed in 7.1.5-1
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Additional Vendor Advisories

(17)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 137× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 518 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 418 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 21:45 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 21:45 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 21:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  4. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  5. 2026-10-31 20:02 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 20:02 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-31 20:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  8. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  9. 2026-10-30 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-30 18:19 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-30 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  12. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  13. 2026-10-29 16:37 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-29 16:37 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-29 16:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  16. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  18. 2026-10-28 14:54 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-28 14:54 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-28 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  21. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  22. 2026-10-27 12:42 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-27 12:42 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-27 12:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  25. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-26 10:59 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-26 10:59 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-26 10:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  4. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 14:07 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 09:16 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-25 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-25 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  9. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  10. 2026-10-24 07:33 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 07:33 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-24 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  13. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  14. 2026-10-23 05:50 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-23 05:50 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-23 05:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  17. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  18. 2026-10-22 04:07 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-22 04:07 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-22 04:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  21. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  22. 2026-10-21 02:21 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-21 02:21 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-21 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  25. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  26. 2026-10-20 00:36 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-20 00:36 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-20 00:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  29. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  30. 2026-10-18 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-18 22:54 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-18 22:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  33. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  34. 2026-10-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-17 21:10 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-17 21:10 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-17 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  38. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  39. 2026-10-16 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-16 19:27 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-16 19:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  42. 2026-10-16 18:59 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-16 18:59 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-16 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  45. 2026-10-16 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-16 18:40 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-16 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  48. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  49. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  50. 2026-10-15 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-15 15:20 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-15 15:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  53. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  54. 2026-10-14 09:47 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-14 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-14 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  57. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  58. 2026-10-13 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-10-13 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-13 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  61. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  62. 2026-10-12 15:42 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-12 05:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  65. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-10-11 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-11 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  69. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
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  72. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  73. 2026-10-07 06:51 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-07 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j2wf-f982-8f9v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.3
  75. 2026-10-07 02:46 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72289?
CVE-2026-72289 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic: Check the interrupt is still ours before migrating it vgic_prune_ap_list() drops both ap_list_lock and irq_lock while migrating an interrupt to another vCPU. After reacquiring the locks it only checks that the…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72289 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72289 was published on August 15, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 16, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-72289 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72289 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (8th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72289?
CVE-2026-72289 has a CVSS base score of 9.3 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72289?
A fix for CVE-2026-72289 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72289 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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