CVE record · CVE-2026-80612

net: lwtunnel: Drop skb metadata before LWT encapsulation

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0055 · 46th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 28 Aug 2026, 06:48 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 8989d328dfe7c7a3b9f4b9f0ef60006d277f81cc to before 19eec11f3ab5dd29ba58f5f209c24e946c95ef12 git
  • affected 8989d328dfe7c7a3b9f4b9f0ef60006d277f81cc to before c00320b0e355c4bf0ae4743a53b4180fea237546 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.19
  • unaffected before 6.19 semver
  • unaffected 7.1.5 to 7.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-80612
CNA
Linux
Published
28 Aug 2026
Updated
29 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0055, the 46th 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 28 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.