CVE-2026-31604

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-04-24 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-06 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: fix device leak on probe failure Driver core holds a reference to the USB interface and its parent USB device while the interface is bound to a driver and there is no need to take additional references unless the structures are needed after disconnect. This driver takes a reference to the USB device during probe but does not to release it on all probe errors (e.g. when descriptor parsing fails). Drop the redundant device reference to fix the leak, reduce cargo culting, make it easier to spot drivers where an extra reference is needed, and reduce the risk of further memory leaks.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < f632987306bce9242cdfcf911ee0b2c9455e05a3
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < a4f4371d194dfa5473cc961f86194084b1b13a69
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < 89a9c1bc7d797120bcc290864e0cb10a440a677f
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < af7307e96dad00bcc2675dac650d8558a52f2c6f
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < 25a827b7e1d5747a255bdc757f1d3e9e1e8a4e2a
Linux Linux a82dfd33d1237f6c0fb8a7077022189d1fc7ec98 < bbb15e71156cd9f5e1869eee7207a06ea8e96c39
Linux Linux 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2 – 6.6.136

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001230
Percentile 2.1%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00123
2026-11-12
0.00123
2026-11-10
0.00123
2026-11-09
0.00123
2026-11-08
0.00123
2026-11-07
0.00123
2026-11-06
0.00123

Intelligence Sources

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