CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-74551

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 15, 2026Sources checked Nov 3, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-74551 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. 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

EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-74551?

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

hwmon: (nzxt-smart2) DMA-align output buffer

Sashiko reports:

When send_output_report() calls hid_hw_output_report(), the underlying USB HID core calls usb_interrupt_msg() which maps this buffer directly for DMA.

When the DMA mapping flushes or invalidates the cacheline, it will corrupt the adjacent variables (mutex, update_interval) that were modified concurrently by the CPU. This causes memory corruption due to cacheline sharing on non-coherent CPU architectures (such as ARM or MIPS).

The DMA API debugging tool (CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG) will trigger runtime warnings for this violation.

Any operation that triggers send_output_report() (like setting a fan speed or updating the interval) causes the USB DMA mapping. On systems with non-coherent caches, this structural bug causes immediate and deterministic memory corruption.

Align the output buffer to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to fix the problem.

Source: NVD