CVE record · CVE-2026-74712

vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 22 Aug 2026, 15:33 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 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before ec3bb289cf19d526224117d5d450a5fd9cbd5ab2 git
  • affected 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before cde8931a25392670dd59a0acfcab87a830ab66c5 git
  • affected 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before 6c8a9f7bc00301e533a5366384f3070a8e7f8430 git
  • affected 0071b138d44af4296bf871e6624369ce697b4b15 to before 727e1f569855df83579edbd73dcb4a0723543a12 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.12
  • unaffected before 6.12 semver
  • unaffected 6.12.104 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.45 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.1.9 to 7.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-74712
CNA
Linux
Published
22 Aug 2026
Updated
25 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.3 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 15 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 22 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.