CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-74487

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 15, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-74487. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 2, 2026

Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.157.1-1

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-2026-74487?

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

binfmt_misc: restore write access when removing an entry

Registering an entry with the MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE flag opens the interpreter via open_exec() which denies write access to it for as long as the entry exists. Removing the entry closes the interpreter file via filp_close() but never restores write access, leaving the inode's i_writecount permanently negative.

Opening the interpreter for writing keeps failing with ETXTBSY long after the entry is gone until the inode is evicted from the inode cache.

Commit 90f601b497d7 ("binfmt_misc: restore write access before closing files opened by open_exec()") fixed the same imbalance in the error path of bm_register_write() but the actual removal path has been leaking the write denial since the introduction of the flag.

Restore write access in put_binfmt_handler() before closing the interpreter file.

Source: NVD