# 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-2026-93826"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:03:04.711Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:57:57.986Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-93826"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93826.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93826"
title: "HID: hidpp: fix potential UAF in hidpp_connect_event()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: hidpp: fix potential UAF in hidpp_connect_event()\n\nIf input_register_device() fails, we call input_free_device(), but keep\nstale pointer to the old device in hidpp-\u003einput, which could potentially\nlead to UAF. Fix that by resetting it to NULL before returning from\nhidpp_connect_event()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e03fd646adad7f97fa4429ec5f38cee9bde5276e"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d7637f4d050d105177217e64b869f56f9825060"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b8b2e58b078cd30e121401535541bb8a6d57133"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3303398cc2aa255ba251650a30024e11d48ea6c3"},{"version":"c39e3d5fc9dd3e16c6f59dd94d827540040de66d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6df6b1f2c49678211f65647c300bc51dda02893b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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