CVE record · CVE-2026-80551

s390/vfio_ccw: Ensure first IDAW remains constant

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 26 Aug 2026, 14:37 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before 5b7c23440343e336259cd45017cc901a744c41b0 git affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before 460b977a4e71cc319fdadf91c193ec3beaa57263 git affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before 0d46c2565f173bcddcdcaf44a4f69789a20535e2 git affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before 08ef2a82115690d6e229615872ac1731af732497 git affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before fc59e9482117ebdccd6dc7fa8082f8b980fd021e git affected 01aa26c672c0eb771de4aaa2a8ccf6055778887b to before 565bef268d75bf7df665bce6923a88cd0eb74592 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.3 unaffected before 5.3 semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.154 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.105 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.46 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.1.10 to 7.1., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-80551
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 26 Aug 2026
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The Linux kernel s390 vfio_ccw driver is affected from version 5.3 until the fix is applied. The source gives few details and does not say what an attacker needs or what they could do. Upgrade to Linux kernel 6.1.191, 6.6.154, 6.12.105, 6.18.46, or a later release in those series.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 15 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 26 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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