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CVE record · CVE-2026-98972

cgroup/cpuset: Don't access cpuset_cgrp_subsys.root in is_in_v2_mode()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:19 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 b8d1b8ee93df8ffbabbeadd65d39853cfad6d698 to before 988bf67a13890a37a33201f95947095ca9bec856 git
  • affected b8d1b8ee93df8ffbabbeadd65d39853cfad6d698 to before e06b678e3b4e12fdaa0b51a7a5a54abc5dbd6469 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.14
  • unaffected before 4.14 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.11 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98972
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
23 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 0.0016, the 5th 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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