CVE-2026-72356

7.5 highEPSS 0.6%

High (7.5). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read() Fix missing release of credits in the failure path in cifs_issue_read() lest retrying the subreq just overwrites the credits value.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2026-08-15
Modified: 2026-08-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a303f985c6bec8787c2ad4a16b39c14c5bcd765
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86652704a7fd41a5a8459027e08640bbd1952826
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ee1f0347bf56d019ca28ddff090234bb45b05c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c16b8c4cfb4fe2244cc33e469a93c1ab8684146b

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