CVE-2026-40468

CRITICALNVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-07-13. NVD baseline CVSS 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2026-43493 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
10th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 13, 2026

Last Modified

October 24, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Vulnerabilities in GNU gawk software | CERT Polska

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467

Patch Availability(9)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntugawk (1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2+esm2) @ trusty2026-11-03ubuntu
redhatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9:4.22.9.8.202610241758-02026-10-27redhat
redhatrhui5/rhua-rhel9:17919786932026-10-14redhat
redhatcostmanagement/costmanagement-ui-rhel10:17914608512026-10-08redhat
redhatgawk-0:4.2.1-5.el8_102026-10-02redhat
redhatgawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.12026-09-29redhat
redhatgawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.12026-09-29redhat
redhatgawk-main-5.4.1-1.hum12026-08-03redhat
redhatgawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum12026-07-15redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gawk1:5.1.0-1, 1:5.2.1-1, 1:5.2.1-2, 1:5.3.2-1
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gawk1:5.2.1-2, 1:5.3.2-1
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gawk1:5.2.1-2, 1:5.3.2-1
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
gawk1:5.2.1-2, 1:5.3.2-1
  • every version on: no fix on record
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 87× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 688 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 588 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 18:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 18:38 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-12 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  4. 2026-11-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  5. 2026-11-11 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 16:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 16:39 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-11 16:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  9. 2026-11-10 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 14:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 14:39 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-10 14:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-11-09 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  14. 2026-11-09 12:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-09 12:41 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-09 12:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-11-08 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  18. 2026-11-08 10:43 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-08 10:43 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-08 10:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  21. 2026-11-07 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  22. 2026-11-07 08:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-07 08:44 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-07 08:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  25. 2026-11-06 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
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  1. 2026-11-06 07:55 UTCOSV refresh
  2. 2026-11-06 06:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-06 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-06 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  5. 2026-11-05 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  6. 2026-11-05 04:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-05 04:48 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-05 04:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  9. 2026-11-04 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  10. 2026-11-04 02:50 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-04 02:50 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-04 02:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-11-03 16:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  14. 2026-11-03 00:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-03 00:52 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-03 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  18. 2026-11-01 22:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-01 22:53 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-01 22:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  21. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  22. 2026-10-31 20:55 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-10-31 20:55 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-31 20:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  25. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  26. 2026-10-30 18:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-30 18:56 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-30 18:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  29. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 10th percentile
  30. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  31. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-29 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  33. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  36. 2026-10-28 14:59 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-28 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  38. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  39. 2026-10-27 12:53 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-27 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  41. 2026-10-27 06:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  42. 2026-10-27 06:21 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-27 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  44. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  45. 2026-10-26 00:24 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  46. 2026-10-26 00:24 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-26 00:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  48. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  51. 2026-10-24 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-24 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  53. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  55. 2026-10-23 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-23 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  57. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  59. 2026-10-22 20:32 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-22 20:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  61. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  63. 2026-10-21 18:32 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-21 18:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  65. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
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  67. 2026-10-20 16:34 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  72. 2026-10-19 14:31 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-19 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-c5xj-c73w-hcgm · GitHub severity LOW · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-40468?
CVE-2026-40468 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 13, 2026. Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.
When was CVE-2026-40468 made public?
CVE-2026-40468 was made public on July 13, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, CERT.PL, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on July 13, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-40468 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-40468 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (10th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-40468?
CVE-2026-40468 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-40468?
A fix for CVE-2026-40468 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-40468 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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