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CVE-2024-26769

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-26769 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's nvmet-fc component, specifically affecting the association deletion path. It involves a deadlock that occurs when attempting to flush the nvmet_wq nested, which has been resolved by deferring the put work into a separate work item. With a CVSS score of 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), this vulnerability requires high privileges for local exploitation and can lead to a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.15.150CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 6.1.80CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2, < 6.6.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.7, < 6.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
14.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-26769Low

kernel: nvmet-fc: avoid deadlock on delete association path

Apr 3, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/1d86f79287206deec36d63b89c741cf542b6cadd
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5e0bc09a52b6169ce90f7ac6e195791adb16cec4
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/710c69dbaccdac312e32931abcb8499c1525d397
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/9e6987f8937a7bd7516aa52f25cb7e12c0c92ee8
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/eaf0971fdabf2a93c1429dc6bedf3bbe85dffa30
Patch