CVE record · CVE-2026-89860

scsi: qla2xxx: Initialize NVMe abort_work once at submission

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0035 · 28th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 16 Sept 2026, 10:31 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 e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 6ee4e3774349fa04bba13e668f3322db47d89b08 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 55259e225412721c3cc09e4d95a489542c0c05b0 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 17d9011c96f819e69074f465c04ee79e693de6a1 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before b403700ac62fbf3c310196386e125879a182efcf git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 6a1b50c4879c2e6a034e8e85f9c055f0eea157c7 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 67f0d5187c29360388f7e1e503c627ec45d01089 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before f4aaa4a4e6f1da6f3abfd80e1917bef922287177 git affected e473b3074104ee09227cfbba5f872e3ea15dd280 to before 7e85f6dbc85616de2172bce8eaf84b387a723cd1 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 4.17 unaffected before 4.17 semver unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10., inclusive semver unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15., inclusive semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.157 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.110 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.51 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.5 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-89860
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 16 Sept 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's qla2xxx SCSI driver is affected from 4.17 until fixed. Repeated aborts of the same NVMe command can corrupt the workqueue list, leading to crashes or a looping worker. The source does not describe what access an attacker needs. Upgrade to 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191 or 6.6.157 or later in the matching branch.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
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 0.0035, the 28th 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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