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CVE-2026-72499

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 15, 2026Sources checked Oct 8, 2026
8.8HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-72499 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.8. 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-2026-72499?

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

RDMA/bnxt_re: Free CQ toggle page after firmware teardown

Free the toggle page only after firmware teardown completes so that an NQ interrupt arriving during bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq() won't write the toggle value to an already-freed page. Move free_page() after bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq.

Source: NVD