CVE record · CVE-2026-98977

namespace: handle mount locking for automounts correctly

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0022 · 12th 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before f9b488641cfa63f9b41321530c543688b2e34f03 git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before 91676705756af6a59a515087b8b854c8a28d12eb git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before 587d25c4b13d49c8fd05df2f71240f73bb2a058c git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before 5e8f3ac8fa3d411b422ad32b9168c46a4824cc79 git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before b3ccde78f1608836e62320428abc0e8aa9cf2329 git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before e01c79761c7b3373e80094c5eadb21cb864fa8bc git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before 6ab37fae14196ba2262b152a7d9222c50356d278 git affected 132c94e31b8bca8ea921f9f96a57d684fa4ae0a9 to before 33aadc7c72055fca93cb5a3691d836ebf8b31c9b git affected 9c773201d61272db49f8f33a83a3cb2a3fe4b14f git affected 3.8.6 to before 3.9 semver Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 3.9 unaffected before 3.9 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 6.12.114 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.57 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.11 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98977
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 23 Oct 2026
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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