CVE record · CVE-2026-98703

wifi: mac80211: minstrel_ht: validate fixed rate index

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:46 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 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before 63097bf1b7f17f14bd9ffcae6590c63272da8bb0 git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before 9b685cfb5cc8ed57991b1a956b06c6658d7cf455 git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before eebc70f132041b35da9ec74d5d395083125289b2 git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before f8ab6ae1fa360b0191252677f41e781dcb0ffe6e git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before 42aa9feb27b600809414a3c6b0c650bafba542a9 git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before 43082d604a9937b94ceb2e484403956d0f363324 git
  • affected 24f7580e852b5472b51eea322bb78454df0054b8 to before 15fb9e3cea55fbc378261ce35a32b0f8828f0000 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.1
  • unaffected before 3.1 semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.10 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98703
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
30 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 7 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

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.