CVE-2026-72356 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.5. 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
EPSS0.6%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-72356?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read()
Fix missing release of credits in the failure path in cifs_issue_read() lest retrying the subreq just overwrites the credits value.