CVE record · CVE-2026-97501

pinctrl: mediatek: paris: bypass pinctrl GPIO layer in set GPIO direction

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 24 Sept 2026, 16:04 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 805250982bb5c5ce4a6e52e1d87204c5feea0dd1 to before f1536772cb3e4aa8d63988051f6fd6e4bb005cf7 git affected 805250982bb5c5ce4a6e52e1d87204c5feea0dd1 to before 482ba972f9638f467df2d498b46384a1d1f80529 git affected 805250982bb5c5ce4a6e52e1d87204c5feea0dd1 to before 3c4897861759fd8bd81dc2ada92121ac76332592 git affected 805250982bb5c5ce4a6e52e1d87204c5feea0dd1 to before 428b031dad390edd5da729b9afd474a95dc4f76b git affected 805250982bb5c5ce4a6e52e1d87204c5feea0dd1 to before c87c9046c4e00d599454e033a477176c4d73ac2a git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 4.20 unaffected before 4.20 semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.114 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-97501
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 24 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 MediaTek pinctrl driver (paris) is affected from version 4.20 until the fixes, and stable releases 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.53 and later are unaffected. The source gives few details on attacker access or impact; it describes a large kernel warning when GPIO direction is set. Upgrade to a fixed kernel release; no workaround is listed.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 12 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 24 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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