CVE-2026-53126

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-06-24 Modified: 2026-11-06 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: blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current() Add the missing put_disk() on the error path in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current(). When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or blkg_tryget() fails, the function jumps to the out label which only calls rcu_read_unlock() but does not release the disk reference acquired by blkcg_schedule_throttle() via get_device(). Since current->throttle_disk is already set to NULL before the lookup, blkcg_exit() cannot release this reference either, causing the disk to never be freed. Restore the reference release that was present as blk_put_queue() in the original code but was inadvertently dropped during the conversion from request_queue to gendisk.

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e < 4048ed98860d3785645ebbd34f69566a6c7320c3
Linux Linux f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e < 73a5af059905d171b398c8b2381632ee499948b5
Linux Linux f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e < b3e005f16cd98f815429a87aef4c61e9c140779f
Linux Linux f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e < 000e8454692cab9d1f1b80130e2870e355301d06
Linux Linux f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e < 23308af722fefed00af5f238024c11710938fba3
Linux Linux 6.3
linux linux_kernel 6.3 – 6.6.141

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

0.11%
Raw Score 0.001140
Percentile 1.5%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00114
2026-11-12
0.00114
2026-11-10
0.00114
2026-11-09
0.00114
2026-11-08
0.00114
2026-11-07
0.00114
2026-11-06
0.00114

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