CVE-2026-72421

CRITICALPre-NVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 10.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 10.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-59320 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables.

When CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is enabled but no rule is added, fib_lookup() performs route lookup directly on two tables.

Since the first lookup does not properly bail out, the result of an error route in the merged local/main table could be overwritten by another route in the default table:

# unshare -n # ip link set lo up # ip route add 192.168.0.0/24 dev lo table 253 # ip route add unreachable 192.168.0.0/24 # ip route get 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 dev lo table default uid 0 cache

Once a random rule is added, the error route is respected:

# ip rule add table 0 # ip rule del table 0 # ip route get 192.168.0.1 RTNETLINK answers: No route to host

Let's fix the inconsistent behaviour.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

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)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
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 (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-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 2026-11-01). 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; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 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 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)3 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 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 30, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd25996f57a95d56bc568c89b4921edcf334b7d8
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b72f0db64205d9ce462038ba995d5d31eff32dc1
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a668fa160247d7bbe921548cb845f607b8b9305f
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29e95fbc51e8a1b932773fd0e259b2080881443
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9127589aabdee588278e8d0d0bd3709a760a92c8
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/828fad4fd418bcdb9f5d66fec0d184c52a85ec31
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ae18d87a45698e8244d0fcba64c658c35a7dd3d
Web page

ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49eaf1403201357762d745a35882fb734107d763

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72421(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(15)

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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All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 29× in last 7d / 134× 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 537 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 437 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 10:36 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 10:36 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 10:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 12:41 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 12:41 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 12:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  8. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 14:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  10. 2026-10-30 16:50 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 16:50 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 16:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  13. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 18:55 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 18:55 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-29 18:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  17. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  18. 2026-10-28 21:00 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-28 21:00 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-28 20:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  21. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  22. 2026-10-27 23:02 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-27 23:02 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-27 23:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  25. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-27 01:05 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 01:05 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 01:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  4. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 23:23 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 23:23 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-25 23:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  8. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 14:06 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-25 01:26 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-25 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  13. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  14. 2026-10-24 03:30 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-24 03:30 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-24 03:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  17. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  18. 2026-10-23 05:34 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-23 05:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  20. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  21. 2026-10-22 07:37 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-22 07:37 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-22 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  24. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  25. 2026-10-21 09:41 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-21 09:41 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-21 09:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  28. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  29. 2026-10-20 11:45 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-20 11:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  31. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  32. 2026-10-19 13:49 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-19 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  34. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  35. 2026-10-18 15:20 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-18 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  37. 2026-10-18 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-17 17:23 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-17 17:23 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-17 17:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  41. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  42. 2026-10-16 19:28 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-16 19:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  44. 2026-10-16 18:58 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-16 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  46. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  47. 2026-10-16 12:08 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-16 12:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  49. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  50. 2026-10-15 13:32 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-15 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  52. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  53. 2026-10-14 08:33 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-14 08:33 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-14 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  56. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  57. 2026-10-13 03:46 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-13 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  59. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  60. 2026-10-12 15:41 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-12 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  62. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-11 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-10-11 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  66. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  67. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  69. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  70. 2026-10-07 06:01 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-07 06:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  72. 2026-10-07 02:19 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-07 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  74. 2026-10-06 22:37 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-06 22:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-66j4-c66h-jm7x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 10.0

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72421?
CVE-2026-72421 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: fib: Don't ignore error route in local/main tables. When CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is enabled but no rule is added, fib_lookup() performs route lookup directly on two tables. Since the first lookup does not properly bail out,…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-72421 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-72421 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-2026-72421 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72421 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72421?
CVE-2026-72421 has a CVSS base score of 10.0 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72421?
A fix for CVE-2026-72421 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72421 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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