Medium severity · published Aug 10, 2026
CVE-2026-71968
OP-TEE OS 4.10.0 Use-After-Free via Trusted Application Loader TA_FLAG_CONCURRENT
6.7
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OP-TEE OS through 4.10.0, fixed in commit 8794043, contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the Trusted Application loader that allows attackers with the ability to load a signed Trusted Application to corrupt secure-world kernel memory by setting the TA_FLAG_CONCURRENT flag in a user TA signed header. Attackers can cause two concurrent sessions to operate on the same shared context without locking, corrupting the uctx->vm_info.regions list during memref parameter mapping and unmapping to free vm_region nodes still in use, resulting in a use-after-free in S-EL1 secure-world kernel memory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
optee_os · OP-TEE
through 4.10.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71968
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71968
github.com
https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/commit/8794043c4065c26a2b8b1313794ba5ba5f06d296
github.com
https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/pull/7900
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/op-tee-os-use-after-free-via-trusted-application-loader-ta-flag-concurrent
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