CVE record · CVE-2026-97609

netfilter: cttimeout: prevent UAF during module unload

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:22 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 ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before 763787e9d43982d1082b59caeabd317343b153ea git
  • affected ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before f664e06699829a31e95675a6864655a6c5f9904f git
  • affected ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before 73f353bec62509c776184e49a031c6145cec0d05 git
  • affected ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before a7fdd86c386b7f7cc72a126389c2cdb55d035221 git
  • affected ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before 1f69c570a73f2dedf75ea5166d47622d5fa958c1 git
  • affected ebfbe67568a734a449203097b02c4ab884257535 to before fec9b1de0d02de8dafa3cc344bcb91cf28660643 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.13
  • unaffected before 5.13 semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97609
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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