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CVE record · CVE-2026-43172

wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0032 · 25th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 May 2026, 11:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 to before 5cc021586420c5e13acc65da5bf73edd451e2c3e git
  • affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 to before b23c7cd616a6a113363be707b7b9e4bc41b18a07 git
  • affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 to before 1d49a42717bdc8de77eabeb5b7d3e88d141ffea9 git
  • affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 to before 2b4b1510aaaf5b9fb57327ecffc20c055f61f205 git
  • affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 to before 58192b9ce09b0f0f86e2036683bd542130b91a98 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.8
  • unaffected before 5.8 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.114 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.16 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.19.6 to 6.19.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.0 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-43172
CNA
Linux
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-129
Tags
Published
6 May 2026
Updated
21 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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