CVE record · CVE-2026-98441

net/sched: act_ct: avoid modifying shared unconfirmed ct entry

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:14 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 a21b06e7319129994f339ed47f512bbe57b77f5b to before c812bb4aea13d385d048b5b24756aee2edf6f99e git affected a21b06e7319129994f339ed47f512bbe57b77f5b to before 2b783c562c3238ff50c34fd7a72a735c9cc73d9a git affected a21b06e7319129994f339ed47f512bbe57b77f5b to before 4a04ed91575819fb1859311113e95700b709bec7 git affected a21b06e7319129994f339ed47f512bbe57b77f5b to before b097d9d7a5b09c8ec5c4c1a08e35ac5a66b06b44 git affected a21b06e7319129994f339ed47f512bbe57b77f5b to before f85009dfcd65e5969526b0db7a49b5413746e630 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.2 unaffected before 6.2 semver unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.55 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98441
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 18 Oct 2026
Updated: 24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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