CVE record · CVE-2026-98725

nvmet-auth: fix out-of-bounds write in nvmet_auth_challenge()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:47 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 db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before e94ff1771c4cb398749789557f0b6feb871e3486 git
  • affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before ef4dfad231a787aded76e5b03788ddb18c8aebab git
  • affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before 9d61131acd742cf97ee64e453383e41b46568513 git
  • affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before 7fd3c363eba4f2aceb4b3f31cd1cf65e0dcbaee4 git
  • affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before 8a9b4c0eef19c207663c1ee888257307c869ca86 git
  • affected db1312dd95488b5e6ff362ff66fcf953a46b1821 to before fa6778e030bed9841ddcdf96bc7018da9ac03562 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.0
  • unaffected before 6.0 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-2026-98725
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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