CVE record · CVE-2026-98885

ima: return error early if file xattr cannot be changed

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 11:37 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 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before 86acb68ebb220b83def94e7f4c33e24e843970e0 git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before 4d98295357bcacb70874e73117e298a9d7d9b830 git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before c6988714c0549e06610635c7a71e88635da6db64 git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before 8c77312728d07b60fc028f676e42d842df918bcd git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before dce1b66fcfb40c935f426f602c3a41a7b9f62ba4 git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before 2f29f880e98bf0087215726c45a485afd15b42cf git
  • affected 07f6a79415d7d502ee0c7d02ace6594a7be7429a to before 69fc6474236d9edda6983623e4282f2bdfd8e3d8 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.7
  • unaffected before 3.7 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98885
CNA
Linux
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
26 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 0.0018, the 7th 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 23 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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