CVE record · CVE-2026-97518

wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries

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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 to before 539d7f795bf0c41fb533c99e6010cdfaf5a1b6a6 git affected 2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 to before d12e92e72db914e1ea777c6f246f6be75985438e git affected 2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 to before 1305f8b925fe92edf5fec183588dfc7db719180b git affected 2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 to before 4cbb2360f4d8c29e67bc7a8bf6ba0ae096583923 git affected 2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 to before 7187d145d9042b037e4f10538f70cf95e380219f git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 2.6.32 unaffected before 2.6.32 semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.160 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-2026-97518
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 wireless configuration code (cfg80211) accepted duplicate cipher suite entries, which can overflow a fixed array returned by SIOCGIWRANGE through the WEP compatibility path. The source gives few details on who can trigger this. Upgrade to Linux kernel 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, or a later stable release in the same branch.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

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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

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