CVE record · CVE-2026-98596

ipv6: Fix dst leak for uncached routes.

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:19 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 98aa546af5e4f180439c82da403cc77926d3953b to before 5045aa25f3790dcdb158a58ac60ccf8da42959aa git
  • affected 98aa546af5e4f180439c82da403cc77926d3953b to before ed902d5546fb9c142b3216d8eec914fa1bc0aa80 git
  • affected 98aa546af5e4f180439c82da403cc77926d3953b to before f9722746df13a8a29103c847ef56b02c11ce0963 git
  • affected 98aa546af5e4f180439c82da403cc77926d3953b to before be31fe6333f534155e6b408f1ef6d77974bb41aa git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.11
  • unaffected before 6.11 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-2026-98596
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
19 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 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 8 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

References from the CNA

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