CVE-2026-10681

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 100% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

In Zephyr's userspace dynamic-objects subsystem, thread_idx_alloc() in kernel/userspace/userspace.c allocated a new thread permission index from the global _thread_idx_map[] bitmap without holding lists_lock.

On SMP systems, two user-mode threads invoking the k_object_alloc(K_OBJ_THREAD) syscall concurrently can both observe the same low free bit, perform the same non-atomic RMW to clear it, and return the identical tidx.

The two newly created K_OBJ_THREAD objects are then assigned the same thread_id, so the two user threads alias a single bit position in every kernel object's perms[] bitfield: any subsequent grant of access on a kernel object to one thread is implicitly a grant to the other, defeating userspace ACL isolation. A secondary lost-update window between the unlocked &=~BIT() in alloc and the locked |= BIT() in thread_idx_free() can also leak entries from the thread-index pool.

The defect is reachable from any user-mode thread via the unrestricted __syscall k_object_alloc and is gated on CONFIG_USERSPACE, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_OBJECTS, and CONFIG_SMP. The flaw was introduced when the per-thread permission index was added in 2018 and is present in every release up to and including v4.4.0. Fixed by holding lists_lock across the bitmap RMW and the permissions clear (and inlining the obj_list traversal that previously took the lock itself).

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
0%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 25, 2026

Last Modified

July 27, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 25, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
github Patch Available

SMP race in thread_idx_alloc() lets concurrent k_object_alloc(K_OBJ_THREAD) callers share a kernel-object permission slot · Advisory · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · GitHub

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-j693-5rh5-8g8h
github_commit

commit 862ea2fbbeb2 (zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr)

Fix landed in zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr commit 862ea2fbbeb2 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/862ea2fbbeb2ccdf8ff994b03e2e3b4405f2c37d

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-27 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-07-27 15:31 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-27 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-07-27 00:26 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-07-26 02:45 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-07-25 13:42 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-07-25 13:41 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-10681?
CVE-2026-10681 is a medium vulnerability published on July 25, 2026. In Zephyr's userspace dynamic-objects subsystem, threadidxalloc() in kernel/userspace/userspace.c allocated a new thread permission index from the global threadidxmap[] bitmap without holding listslock. On SMP systems, two user-mode threads invoking the kobjectalloc(KOBJTHREAD) syscall concurrently…
When was CVE-2026-10681 disclosed?
CVE-2026-10681 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 25, 2026, with the most recent update on July 27, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-10681 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-10681 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 99.8% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-10681?
CVE-2026-10681 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-10681?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-10681, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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