CVE record · CVE-2026-98705

wifi: mac80211: account proxy paths against the mesh path limit

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th 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 ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before 0e79c9d260862bd4676955d3cac7baa0d38a5b2e git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before bfd447ee32f727e535e317aa5a8447488f943803 git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before 7f83dab0045f756a82a15ac751165aefa03bed11 git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before c66ab4b94bb04c162485759196555e08c0965320 git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before df072db65fdaa34ad15e1d66fc06a53e3e97f778 git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before 3b75831ceee76d32bb8e7ddd241904f92f9b5407 git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before 5a32409ed34a1868830899a5d2437f0b3bf3532c git
  • affected ece1a2e7e86078c8379937b546e32cb7f25fcb6c to before a5f35d4b112af1415ff06bd501c8cc26cc08aa8b git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.2
  • unaffected before 3.2 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive 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-2026-98705
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 11th percentile, on 6 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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