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CVE-2026-72081

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 15, 2026Sources checked Oct 8, 2026
N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable
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CVE-2026-72081. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-72081?

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

scsi: elx: efct: Fix I/O leak on unsupported additional CDB

efct_dispatch_fcp_cmd() allocates an efct_io before dispatching an unsolicited FCP command. If the command has an unsupported additional CDB, the function returns -EIO before handing the IO to the SCSI layer.

Free the allocated IO before returning from this error path.

Source: NVD