CVE record · CVE-2026-72005

wifi: rt2x00: avoid full teardown before work setup in probe

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 15 Aug 2026, 05:51 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 8b58d1f1356df6a7d2de3f55bb665b18b04ffda0 git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 59afe6148927395cf86f9429900e029a48b1d42b git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 3c0427d719bddb33caf18ff4ffb77cb47de7eb00 git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before eb7474d0253bb2de4793e1d3ce833e8564bbe732 git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 66bd9b1a72de7c2f5141b02d796048aafaed8a49 git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 816559409e340acaa5c9d868291dab30d8c80263 git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 56994852d704535ea354a4627ca667b1b4fa0deb git
  • affected 0439f5367c8d8bb2ebaca8d7329f51f3148b2fb2 to before 536fb3d739d75a03cb318c0c6fe799425cfea501 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.39
  • unaffected before 2.6.39 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.261 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.212 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.178 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.145 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.97 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.40 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.1.5 to 7.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-72005
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-404
Published
15 Aug 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.