CVE record · CVE-2026-98988

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CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:20 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 9b8a0ba68246a61d903ce62c35c303b1501df28b to before b8a94a405ddcf45e9470789e0a821d8f2aa4ca10 git
  • affected 9b8a0ba68246a61d903ce62c35c303b1501df28b to before 0febe278ec45b1ccdbe9bd5ff1ba365d8fd55e2a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 7.0
  • unaffected before 7.0 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.11 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98988
CNA
Linux
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • 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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