CVE-2026-74733

gpio: pca953x: fix pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock regmap lock

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 22, 2026 at 03:33 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: pca953x: fix pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock regmap lock Locking is disabled in the regmap config as this driver uses its own lock. This means that all calls to regmap functions (read or write) must hold the i2c_lock. The function pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock() did not do this, and it was therefore possible that multiple threads could cause an incorrect register to be read/written. A previous patch partly fixed this, but only protected the write to the interrupt mask register, and not the read from the direction register.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

58a5c93bd1a6e949267400080f07e57ffe05ec346.1.1016.106.6.426.9.11bfc6444b57dc7186b6acc964705d7516cbaf3904de7cffa53149c7b48bd1bb29b02390c9f05b7f41e2ecdddca80dd845df42376e4b0197fe97018ba2
Vendor states this is fixed in 9dc325327babe7f159e84cbe9380a45342da0585 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e6a2f5f845f50b0c4299bace5111f56d3390a090 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.57 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 6.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 6.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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StatusRECEIVED

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