CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-93260

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 24, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

7.4HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-93260 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.4. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Sep 27, 2026

Release Notes

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-2026-93260?

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

powerpc/xive: propagate IPI init errors to prevent use-after-free

When xive_init_ipis() fails (e.g. irq_domain_alloc_irqs() fails), the error path frees the global xive_ipis array. However, xive_smp_probe() previously ignored this failure and proceeded to call xive_setup_cpu_ipi(), which dereferences the already-freed xive_ipis pointer -- a use-after-free.

Now that xive_smp_probe() returns int (previous patch), propagate the error from xive_init_ipis() and xive_setup_cpu_ipi() through xive_smp_probe(). Check the return value in both pnv_smp_probe() and pSeries_smp_probe() so that IPI setup is aborted cleanly on failure, avoiding the use-after-free.

Source: NVD