CVE-2026-68161

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source

Also known asEUVD-2026-55547 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown

proc_sctp_do_udp_port() starts per-net SCTP UDP tunneling sockets when net.sctp.udp_port is set, and stops/restarts them when the sysctl value changes. The netns exit path does not stop these sockets, so a namespace can be torn down while its SCTP UDP tunnel sockets are still installed.

Close the UDP tunnel sockets from sctp_ctrlsock_exit() after unregistering the per-net sysctl table. This prevents new sysctl writes from racing in while the sockets are being released, and closes the sockets before the control socket is destroyed.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

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)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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 at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
52nd
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 (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.7% 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 low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days 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 low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (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

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Nov 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb2bd7ade36ec4da32c46a6eddbf4515316d08c
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6eb2d615210b80339548ab07c0230edaab9a6c7
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c29affd44e6769e3073235d4b471d9b501fa8166
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ff78591d309c50a4fdab683b68dd8d512a270dd
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf0e349cbb4f975f35eb22753acc346b89c66a0
Web page

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37ff9794be48d0caa37687e04d09675f9c849121

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68161(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(16)

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 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (57 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.190-1: fixed in 6.1.190-1
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linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.101-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.101-1~deb12u1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (32 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.101-1: fixed in 6.12.101-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (162 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.6-1: fixed in 7.1.6-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 88× 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 569 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 469 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 01:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-13 01:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  4. 2026-11-12 00:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-12 00:40 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-12 00:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-11 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  8. 2026-11-10 23:36 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-10 23:36 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-10 23:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-10 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  12. 2026-11-09 22:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-09 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-11-09 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  15. 2026-11-08 21:29 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-08 21:29 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-11-08 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-11-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  19. 2026-11-07 20:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-11-07 20:25 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-11-07 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-07 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  23. 2026-11-06 19:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-11-06 19:22 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-06 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-06 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  2. 2026-11-06 15:55 UTCOSV refresh
  3. 2026-11-05 18:18 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-05 18:18 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-11-05 18:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-11-05 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  7. 2026-11-04 17:15 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-04 17:15 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-04 17:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-04 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  11. 2026-11-03 16:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  12. 2026-11-03 16:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-03 16:11 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-03 16:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-02 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  16. 2026-11-02 15:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-02 15:03 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-02 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  20. 2026-11-01 13:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-01 13:59 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-01 13:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  24. 2026-10-31 12:55 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-10-31 12:55 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-31 12:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  28. 2026-10-30 11:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  29. 2026-10-30 11:51 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-30 11:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  32. 2026-10-29 10:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  33. 2026-10-29 10:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  35. 2026-10-28 09:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  36. 2026-10-28 09:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  38. 2026-10-27 07:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  39. 2026-10-27 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-27 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  42. 2026-10-26 04:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  43. 2026-10-26 04:03 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-26 04:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  45. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  46. 2026-10-25 14:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-25 02:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  48. 2026-10-25 02:59 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-25 02:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 51st percentile
  51. 2026-10-24 01:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  52. 2026-10-24 01:56 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-24 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 51st percentile
  55. 2026-10-23 00:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  56. 2026-10-23 00:53 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-23 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 51st percentile
  59. 2026-10-21 23:49 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  60. 2026-10-21 23:49 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-21 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 51st percentile
  63. 2026-10-20 22:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  64. 2026-10-20 22:44 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-20 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  67. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  68. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-19 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-10-19 21:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  71. 2026-10-19 21:03 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-19 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  73. 2026-10-19 20:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  74. 2026-10-19 20:58 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-19 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9g3f-gj9q-hqjj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68161?
CVE-2026-68161 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 10, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown proc_sctp_do_udp_port() starts per-net SCTP UDP tunneling sockets when net.sctp.udp_port is set, and stops/restarts them when the sysctl value changes. The netns exit path does…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68161 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68161 was published on August 10, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-68161 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68161 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (52nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68161?
CVE-2026-68161 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68161?
A fix for CVE-2026-68161 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68161 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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