CVE record · CVE-2026-98979

namespace: refuse an automount below a mount that is in no namespace

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th 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 df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before d8c7f74adf5de78035d41aa33c8f71e12b3ca430 git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before c88546071d30417ab9e55821c83f4dc7756cff6f git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before c98e74d73a3356ab00fc6bb9dec3c77da1ec1ce4 git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before 95fb7c259b86f5521f04973040ad492f2bef6f82 git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before 35f2013f83ef16f9f0331c4c3a8e8d161580d574 git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before 494c57572d2d5bc2839553ed41aabe92ed0f587c git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before 776e20e4fdc23c23687b511ffdc80047878049d3 git
  • affected df820f8de4e481222b17f9bcee7b909ae8167529 to before ba985ce08471c555af2a2fbe217c1bc2e72a6d8c git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.8
  • unaffected before 5.8 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 6.18.57 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-2026-98979
CNA
Linux
Published
23 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 23 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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