# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72395"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:22.400Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:43:38.599Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72395"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72395.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72395"
title: "hwmon: (pmbus) Fix passing events to regulator core"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (pmbus) Fix passing events to regulator core\n\nSashiko reports:\n\nCommit 754bd2b4a084 (\"hwmon: (pmbus/core) Protect regulator operations with\nmutex\") introduced a worker to batch regulator events over time using\natomic_or(). The delayed worker then passes the combined bitmask unmodified\nto regulator_notifier_call_chain().\n\nThe core regulator subsystem's regulator_handle_critical() function\nevaluates the event parameter using a strict switch statement. If\nmultiple distinct faults occur before the worker runs (e.g.,\nREGULATOR_EVENT_UNDER_VOLTAGE | REGULATOR_EVENT_OVER_CURRENT), the combined\nbitmask fails to match any case. This leaves the reason as NULL and\ncompletely bypasses the critical hw_protection_trigger().\n\nFix the problem by passing events bit by bit to the regulator event\nhandler."
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