CVE record · CVE-2026-97949

configfs: unhash the dentry before dropping the item in rmdir

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th 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 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before b315d865660766d45ecdbf7433a4e3d36a554b3b git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before 446720051d44eebaa81b33969173160057b73a33 git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before 5d7cbfb65e47cc71d5d94d87d5d0d1679080f3eb git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before 925d8564f1b2d9b46c5ab63b9bc942cea006da9b git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before f06c2d26d1999d37e93299db0ecead04ca7d0b9f git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.16
  • unaffected before 2.6.16 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-2026-97949
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 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 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 11 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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