CVE record · CVE-2026-98989

namespace: check a recursive bind mount for mount namespace loops

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected e149ed2b805fefdccf7ccdfc19eca22fdd4514ac to before a0ba48256f5dff6f75a45f8ce39fe57f21df1022 git affected e149ed2b805fefdccf7ccdfc19eca22fdd4514ac to before 37a82f400efa4d263542a5fa41755b21057f1e5d git affected e149ed2b805fefdccf7ccdfc19eca22fdd4514ac to before c640a01a78e42302879006ed7b7d5a9a943ba815 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 3.19 unaffected before 3.19 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-2026-98989
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 23 Oct 2026
Updated: 23 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th 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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