Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-53178

High

Published: 25 June 2026

Published
25 June 2026
Modified
30 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0021 11.7th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-53178 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Kernel (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 11.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

Kernel driver integer underflow enables local privilege escalation via exploitation of memory handling flaws.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Kernel
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References