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CVE record · CVE-2026-98995

namespace: reset the old parent's ->overmount in mnt_change_mountpoint()

CVSS 7.8 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 ffdc52fbbd5835a936ad683c943d6d103a2d4514 to before 5e0a1f2c753a79749bc2ead3ae2f2ede3941daa5 git
  • affected ffdc52fbbd5835a936ad683c943d6d103a2d4514 to before 08d575ee89393fd812dbdca7b5d7b4574cd5a564 git
  • affected ffdc52fbbd5835a936ad683c943d6d103a2d4514 to before 476ef286a7a5db8bda51325dc0c45887b4d99d9a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.17
  • unaffected before 6.17 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-2026-98995
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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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