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CVE record · CVE-2026-97517

wifi: nl80211: reject beacons with bad HE operation

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0016 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 24 Sept 2026, 16:05 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 7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 to before 6e24f72985782013bf2feb0f0712b2ac9390e909 git
  • affected 7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 to before 8fe5eb7b68d76b3801409ada7365c67696e7af84 git
  • affected 7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 to before 6c4bb5450b9d9111faaaba581ea45a3a79844e50 git
  • affected 7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 to before 0d635f0b4a634eb599ed13a87ece0b5f129f9900 git
  • affected 7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 to before 8b9a100e1a76c52988b31099b349fd95a58c8768 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.7
  • unaffected before 5.7 semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 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-2026-97517
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
24 Sept 2026
Updated
3 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 0.0016, the 4th 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

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.