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Operating Systems

77,051 CVEs tracked since 1999. In the last 12 months, 15,204, +57% on the 12 before.

Operating Systems by subsector, Sep 2026 so far

Sep 2026 so far: 3,173 CVEs across 6 subsectors. Area is each subsector's share; inside are the products it counted most. Point at one to read it.
  • Linux distributions1,68653% · 14 vendors
  • Windows82726% · 2 vendors
  • Mobile OS36812% · 6 vendors
  • macOS, Unix & BSD2357% · 3 vendors

Also: Not yet sub-classified 41, RTOS & embedded OS 16.

Month by month

Every monthly snapshot of Operating Systems. A column is the CVEs published that month.

Sep 2021 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Operating Systems CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2021-09393
2021-10335
2021-11308
2021-12361
2022-01463
2022-02402
2022-03385
2022-04570
2022-05293
2022-06335
2022-07532
2022-08493
2022-09475
2022-10387
2022-11394
2022-12452
2023-01357
2023-02380
2023-030
2023-04373
2023-05332
2023-06442
2023-07469
2023-08493
2023-09442
2023-10445
2023-11398
2023-12374
2024-01409
2024-02703
2024-03592
2024-04892
2024-051516
2024-06591
2024-07903
2024-08726
2024-09650
2024-10891
2024-11738
2024-12725
2025-01795
2025-021304
2025-03623
2025-04779
2025-05929
2025-06734
2025-07908
2025-08584
2025-091134
2025-101116
2025-11501
2025-121379
2026-01636
2026-02503
2026-03598
2026-04761
2026-052693
2026-061201
2026-071989
2026-082693
2026-093173

Vendors

Who shipped the most Operating Systems CVEs in Sep 2026 so far, with their rank across all vendors.

  1. Linux1,507#1
  2. Microsoft1,001#2
  3. Red Hat157#9
  4. Samsung Mobile29#37
  5. Synology19#59
  6. Qualcomm, Inc.15#78
  7. Suse14#87
  8. Zephyrproject13#95

Weaknesses

The weakness classes behind Operating Systems CVEs in Sep 2026 so far.

  1. CWE-122 Heap Buffer Overflow311
  2. CWE-416 Use After Free199
  3. CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read174
  4. CWE-862 Missing Authorization36
  5. CWE-22 Path Traversal30
  6. CWE-284 Improper Access Control27

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities in Operating Systems.

  1. CVE-2026-98163cgroup: Avoid iteration of dying tasks with zero refcount—
  2. CVE-2026-93834Qemu-kvm: 9pfs: use-after-free race in tlcreate/twalk allows vm guest escape8.8
  3. CVE-2026-98162smb/server: fix tree connection leak in smb2_tree_connect()—
  4. CVE-2026-98161nvdimm: pmem: keep PREFLUSH before data writes—
  5. CVE-2026-98160staging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()—
  6. CVE-2026-100079usb: typec: ucsi: unregister debugfs entries on teardown—
  7. CVE-2026-100078wifi: iwlwifi: mei: pass correct argument to function—
  8. CVE-2026-100077drm/msm: Recover HW before retire hung submit—
  9. CVE-2026-100076staging: rtl8723bs: fix xmit_frame/xmit_buf leaks on mgnt-frame error paths—
  10. CVE-2026-100075RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters9.8
  11. CVE-2026-100073ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback—
  12. CVE-2026-100074bpf: Mark bpf_refcount field as unique—
  13. CVE-2026-100072ACPI: platform: Use acpi_bus_get_primary_device()—
  14. CVE-2026-100070netfilter: nf_nat_sip: rewind offset when NAT shrinks the packet—
  15. CVE-2026-100071net: hsr: free learned nodes on device setup failure—

The record

Busiest month
Sep 2026 so far, 3,173 CVEs
Sep 2026 so far
3,173 CVEs from 30 vendors
Deployment
On-prem, 98%
Monthly snapshots
300 since 1999
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