CVE-2026-53178

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 61/100
Published: 2026-06-25 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Adjacent Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: add bounds checks before ie_length subtraction Add guards to ensure ie_length is large enough before subtracting fixed IE offsets to prevent unsigned integer underflow.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (16)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 < 18143799ad51a32b1351e4e1591b6285a0a9d7dd
Linux Linux d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 < 8863ac3a4fedf86b0ef5b8ecc37fbaa52f2a8160
Linux Linux d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 < 637e0ea73f690028796ee2fc72a2ac4ec32968c6
Linux Linux d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 < 542d65a6dbd9733baab96313c9fe76a76e93f484
Linux Linux d3fcee1b78a533c256077f1300dd236801397cf7 < 88e994c57a79f62d5338231d8d37ee8dd98baffe
Linux Linux 1b786350924cc0fa30d4434470b32f24e8ddd107
Linux Linux 5.10.273 < 5.11
Linux Linux 5.15
linux linux_kernel 5.15 – 7.0.13
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1
linux linux_kernel 7.1

Bug Bounty Relevance

61 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.1 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.40%
Raw Score 0.004050
Percentile 34.7%
Date 2026-10-30

EPSS Trend

2026-10-30
0.00405
2026-10-29
0.00405

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →