Is CVE-2026-40272 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-40272?

CVE-2026-40272 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7).

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CVE-2026-40272

Description

Improper Input Validation in the decode() function of the traceparser library could allow an attacker with a corrupted kernel trace event log (.kev) file, to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash in processes that use libtraceparser in QNX hosts or targets.