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CVE-2026-74750

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 26, 2026Sources checked Nov 3, 2026
7.5HIGHCVSS out of 10
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CVE-2026-74750 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-2026-74750?

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

ovpn: defer key slot crypto freeing to workqueue

Key slots are released through a kref and the existing release path frees the AEAD transforms from an RCU callback. That is not safe for all crypto implementations: crypto_free_aead can sleep, for example when an async or hardware implementation has teardown work to complete.

Use queue_rcu_work for key-slot release. This keeps the RCU grace period needed by lockless key-slot readers, but runs the actual crypto teardown from workqueue context where sleeping is allowed.

Once the rcu_work callback runs, pre-existing RCU readers are gone, and the final kref put already proves that no transform user remains, so the worker can release the AEAD transforms and free the slot directly.

The previous patch drains ovpn_wq during module exit, so queued key-slot teardown work cannot outlive module text.

Source: NVD