CVE record · CVE-2026-98471

KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migration

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 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 b56639318bb2be66aceba92836279714488709b4 to before 37dfb676fafd1eef36fe0bb649607afbb0d5521b git affected b56639318bb2be66aceba92836279714488709b4 to before d4cc2dff12116a700add601c0262132cc26e1b2c git affected b56639318bb2be66aceba92836279714488709b4 to before 93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.16 unaffected before 5.16 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-2026-98471
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
7.1	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 4th percentile, on 8 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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