{"id":"CVE-2026-72490","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72490","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:46:22.705Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix stainfo check in rtw_aes_decrypt The null-pointer-guard was incorrect, returning _FAIL on valid pointer.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8723bs: fix stainfo check in rtw_aes_decrypt\n\nThe null-pointer-guard was incorrect, returning _FAIL on valid pointer.\nInvert the guard, so it returns _FAIL on invalid pointer.","published":"2026-08-15T06:22:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-17T06:19:17.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":null,"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00198,"percentile":0.09445,"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":"unknown","text":"Not yet scored. NVD analysis is pending; check back once CVSS and EPSS values are published."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a3f9b3c47d8f071b0eb9e63906ac0448058278d","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde2296f87b72ccd72460ce13ad56e8652b321d4","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72490","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."}