CVE record · CVE-2026-89787

ext4: check dir entry fits before reading the hash trailer in ext4_search_dir()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 16 Sept 2026, 08:48 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 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before 4d20106c536b73c4a8a02652dc85e35898baebf7 git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before 61a395967de06edba58760e81907a272db749faa git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before e94676a08af6312aa72d8a981232b281f9bcfcf5 git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before d8c184bec24b5a00ae96d704856d935eaded1685 git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before 3933884bc3102898b458c53fbd1ac52eb9cdb8a4 git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before 83663c0b739480c00cfe785675db87520ec484ed git
  • affected 471fbbea7ff7061b2d6474665cb5a2ceb4fd6500 to before c7e6b863d298f56522d0d08554bbea7f142e6588 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.13
  • unaffected before 5.13 semver
  • unaffected 5.15.221 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.188 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.157 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.110 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.52 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.6 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-89787
CNA
Linux
Published
16 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0021, the 11th percentile, on 14 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 16 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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