{"id":"CVE-2026-72373","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72373","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:27:13.411Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix missing NULL pointer check in afs_break_some_callbacks() Fix afs_break_some_callbacks() to check to see if afs_lookup_volume_rcu() returned NULL (e.g. the specified volume is…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix missing NULL pointer check in afs_break_some_callbacks()\n\nFix afs_break_some_callbacks() to check to see if afs_lookup_volume_rcu()\nreturned NULL (e.g. the specified volume is unknown).","published":"2026-08-15T06:22:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-16T19:17:26.000Z","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":0.49888,"date":"2026-10-26","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/5492799ec5d27be3bd454dcaf046bc7054f637ae","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794a01110390c1b76f59ece773fb0fbfd89c6f5c","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a99a617701186dc68c7b330d35fc2253f48e2ab2","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e59ff22a0de01ed0cf3a3e25558811abc3b70a","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72373","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."}