Is CVE-2026-118593 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-118593?

CVE-2026-118593 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (5.9).

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CVE-2026-118593

Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel builds. An incomplete backport of the CVE-2026-46099 fix in RHEL 9.6 through 9.10 left a local_bh imbalance in seg6_input_core(), where the drop path returns with bottom halves still disabled. This can lead to softirq starvation and denial of service on systems with SRv6 tunnels configured. Upstream and RHEL 10 are not affected.