{"id":"CVE-2026-72356","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72356","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:47:15.907Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read()\n\nFix missing release of credits in the failure path in cifs_issue_read()\nlest retrying the subreq just overwrites the credits value.","published":"2026-08-15T06:22:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:18:40.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.0063,"percentile":0.49971,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.63%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a303f985c6bec8787c2ad4a16b39c14c5bcd765","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86652704a7fd41a5a8459027e08640bbd1952826","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ee1f0347bf56d019ca28ddff090234bb45b05c","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c16b8c4cfb4fe2244cc33e469a93c1ab8684146b","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72356","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}