In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: avoid fs reclaim while using current->journal_info
handle_reply() stores a ceph_mds_request pointer in
current->journal_info while filling the inode and dentry cache from
an MDS reply.
An allocation in this section can enter direct reclaim and prune
dentries from another filesystem. If this dirties an ext4 inode, ext4
starts a JBD2 transaction. JBD2 interprets the Ceph request in
current->journal_info as a journal handle and dereferences the
request's r_tid as h_transaction, causing a kernel crash, e.g.:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000077b4818
[...]
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 2699135 Comm: kworker/6:3 Tainted: G W 6.18.38-i3 #1113 NONE
[...]
Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn
pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : jbd2__journal_start+0x2c/0x208
lr : __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x100/0x178
[...]
Call trace:
jbd2__journal_start+0x2c/0x208 (P)
__ext4_journal_start_sb+0x100/0x178
ext4_dirty_inode+0x3c/0x90
__mark_inode_dirty+0x58/0x400
iput.part.0+0x2b0/0x370
iput+0x18/0x30
dentry_unlink_inode+0xc0/0x158
__dentry_kill+0x80/0x250
shrink_dentry_list+0x90/0x130
prune_dcache_sb+0x60/0x98
super_cache_scan+0xe8/0x190
do_shrink_slab+0x174/0x388
shrink_slab+0xd8/0x4c0
shrink_node+0x31c/0x908
do_try_to_free_pages+0xd0/0x508
try_to_free_pages+0x11c/0x238
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x4d0/0xdd0
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x18/0x70
__filemap_get_folio+0x248/0x440
ceph_readdir_prepopulate+0x570/0x9e8
mds_dispatch+0x1424/0x1ba0
ceph_con_process_message+0x74/0xa0
ceph_con_v1_try_read+0x3a0/0x1510
ceph_con_workfn+0x260/0x460
Enter a scoped NOFS allocation context and leave it after clearing
journal_info. This prevents filesystem reclaim from recursing into
another filesystem while the field contains Ceph-private data.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.5% 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