# ipe: protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98533`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98533`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 18 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:17 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: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `e155858dd99523d4afe0f74e9c26e4f4499eb5af to before 3bd335ed62444bec61201df7d368a0779e5bd300` (git)
  - affected: `e155858dd99523d4afe0f74e9c26e4f4499eb5af to before 599d0498a39319285afa908762e0c9fad29f772e` (git)
  - affected: `e155858dd99523d4afe0f74e9c26e4f4499eb5af to before d7c5bd3159235edb0f2febe2cd3d3b0fb53986f1` (git)
  - affected: `e155858dd99523d4afe0f74e9c26e4f4499eb5af to before 2776e9c28513a1c855a94792b292cbcc533418c8` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.12`
  - unaffected: `before 6.12` (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

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0021, the 11th percentile, on 9 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 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98533](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98533)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98533](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98533)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bd335ed62444bec61201df7d368a0779e5bd300>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/599d0498a39319285afa908762e0c9fad29f772e>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7c5bd3159235edb0f2febe2cd3d3b0fb53986f1>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2776e9c28513a1c855a94792b292cbcc533418c8>

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.

## Check whether this affects you

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- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2026-98533>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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