CVE record · CVE-2026-90235

sunrpc: xprtsock: annotate shared socket callbacks with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0066 · 52nd 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 17 Sept 2026, 16:07 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 a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before 6b79b5a0f1c566f0aa6e08c7981826015a0acc4d git
  • affected a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before ed80d009b154aa204f541d390884851b3d4f15ae git
  • affected a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before 589f761236e05ff9de1bdfd6a5258f113e6457fe git
  • affected a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before da652cb17f9faeea1fa44b7215e8869a0b10b664 git
  • affected a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before d8f0b83753809761a560c4b33249388548ba6e43 git
  • affected a246b0105bbd9a70a698f69baae2042996f2a0e9 to before 33930840b5f0a79f826e7c69dc6cd78f72a67481 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.15
  • unaffected before 2.6.15 semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.157 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.110 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.52 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.6 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-90235
CNA
Linux
Published
17 Sept 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Linux kernel sunrpc xprtsock is affected from version 2.6.15 until fixed. The source gives few details on who can exploit it or what they gain; it describes adding READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE annotations to shared socket callbacks. Upgrade to 6.1.191, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, or a later release in those series.

Written 12 Nov 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 0.0066, the 52nd percentile, on 13 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 17 Sept 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.