CVE-2026-68479

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

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

Also known asEUVD-2026-59101 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.8EG
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: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds

rtlbt_parse_firmware() copies patch_length - 4 bytes before appending the firmware version. A malformed firmware patch shorter than the version field can make this subtraction underflow and turn the copy into an oversized read and write during Bluetooth setup.

The existing patch_offset + patch_length check can also wrap on 32-bit architectures. Validate the patch length and range without arithmetic overflow before allocating or copying the patch.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

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)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
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 (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-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 2026-11-09). 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; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 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 low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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)14 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 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 15, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Aug 17, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1ca750c0510bdbb504bf084d2f196ef2af92ea6
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Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bda3c598ade6ea03884074b91e31608326684921
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4cb830e0b55ac76c849fd7840afb251f4c028fa
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83534891c058ed71e251135072640911670869aa
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Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68c5a2a19987c035eb129e627e579adafb04f637
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6744ab60dfac55d1df5733960aad5be300984301
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/609c5b04a28dc1b0f3af6a7bc93055135b2d2059
Web page

Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39e01b4addfbbe177567d6ed1dfb81f9cccb19e6

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68479(1)

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

Patch Availability(15)

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

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (55 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.180-1: fixed in 6.1.180-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (31 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.100-1: fixed in 6.12.100-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.1~rc7-1~exp1 (161 versions)
  • every version up to 7.1.5-1: fixed in 7.1.5-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 42× 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 256 rows on record for this CVE, as 99 entries (1 repeat merged).

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. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 156 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  4. 2026-11-09 18:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-09 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-11-09 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  14. 2026-11-03 06:26 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-03 06:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  23. 2026-10-27 18:02 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-27 18:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  10. 2026-10-19 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-19 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  19. 2026-10-16 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-16 17:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  24. 2026-10-16 16:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  29. 2026-10-13 10:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  42. 2026-10-06 22:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  48. 2026-10-05 12:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  53. 2026-10-03 19:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  56. 2026-10-02 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  59. 2026-10-02 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  63. 2026-09-30 21:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2gq6-hg5j-367v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68479?
CVE-2026-68479 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds rtlbt_parse_firmware() copies patch_length - 4 bytes before appending the firmware version. A malformed firmware patch shorter than the version field can make this subtraction…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-68479 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-68479 was published on August 15, 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-2026-68479 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68479 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68479?
CVE-2026-68479 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68479?
A fix for CVE-2026-68479 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-68479 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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