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CVE record · CVE-2026-98197

hwmon: (w83791d) remove fan/pwm 4-5 sysfs group on remove

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0012 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:44 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 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 081e3a78453635fb370b1712809d2af29e60b4c5 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before b1d419eb3bc41245c3d3d99dfe1a7b6c45989586 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 2ccf6c512290a288a2d4d7f076430dfb0c6ee476 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before f6e2ab72f32d16d71a2549c7ea062dd209f71670 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 2dd37d00f1f1af8e02ffa70ee573c10fd1a76864 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 2c381e6e0f033f2df13bd64905e7232c42f49009 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 583e04e88e75b8d57304015d83c38e82a9531600 git
  • affected 6e1ecd9b8f1358ed4d099f0c54434240dc40debe to before 0ff9c7775e51ac6d47b1bb5c46f06b1434fe58a8 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.28
  • unaffected before 2.6.28 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98197
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 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 0.0012, the 1st percentile, on 10 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 6 Oct 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.