CVE-2026-89971

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-16. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed

nvme_query_zone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive NVMe status code, but nvme_update_ns_info_block() only tests for the negative case:

ret = nvme_query_zone_info(ns, lbaf, &zi); if (ret < 0) goto out;

If the device fails the Identify Namespace (I/O Command Set specific) command, or the Identify Controller command issued by nvme_set_max_append(), the positive status falls through and setup continues with the zero-initialized zone info. nvme_update_zone_info() then marks the queue zoned with chunk_sectors and ns->head->zsze set to zero.

blk_validate_zoned_limits() does not check chunk_sectors, so the limits commit succeeds. blk_revalidate_disk_zones() does reject the zero zone size, but by then the limits are live and nothing rolls them back, so I/O keeps being submitted to a zoned queue with a zero zone size and disk_zone_no() shifts by ilog2(0):

nvme0n1: Invalid non power of two zone size (0) UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in include/linux/blkdev.h:747:16 shift exponent -1 is negative disk_zone_no include/linux/blkdev.h:747 [inline] bio_straddles_zones include/linux/blkdev.h:1058 [inline] blk_zone_wplug_handle_write block/blk-zoned.c:1423 [inline] blk_zone_plug_bio.cold+0x25/0x1c8 block/blk-zoned.c:1605 blk_mq_submit_bio+0x18fb/0x2870 block/blk-mq.c:3196 submit_bh_wbc+0x575/0x740 fs/buffer.c:2824 __block_write_full_folio+0x728/0xdd0 fs/buffer.c:1933

Any device, firmware or NVMe-oF target that fails this one command reaches this.

Skip the zoned limits update in that case, and log which of the two things happened: during a revalidation the queue keeps the zone geometry it was last validated with, and on a first scan the namespace is registered without zoned limits, so that it is still available as a handle for admin commands. Neither of the paths in nvme_query_zone_info() that return a positive status logs anything, so the failure would otherwise be silent.

zi.zone_size is an exact indicator: every path that returns a positive status returns before it is assigned, and after that the only failure left is -ENODEV, which the caller already handles.

Found by FuzzNvme.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
39
EG Risk 39/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
48th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 16, 2026

Last Modified

October 3, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb6dafa79040357cf5043836e1db108c2af8b1e1
generic

nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fad53ae2052a2b4fc7ca567d6555bdb1176ba35
generic

nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3838e80fcfb32e62baffb63c6dc0a60153665a4d

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-89971(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (183 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (179 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.6-1: fixed in 7.2.6-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 27× in last 7d / 79× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:50 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-04 23:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-10-04 11:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 23:41 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-03 23:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-03 11:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-03 07:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  13. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-10-01 19:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  17. 2026-09-30 18:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-09-30 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-29 18:41 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-29 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-29 06:28 UTCEG score recompute
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  24. 2026-09-28 18:24 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-28 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
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  3. 2026-09-28 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-27 17:17 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-27 17:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-27 05:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-26 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-26 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-26 04:57 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-26 04:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-25 16:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-25 04:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-24 16:45 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-24 16:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
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  19. 2026-09-24 04:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-23 16:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-23 04:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-22 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-22 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-09-22 04:17 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-09-22 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-09-21 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-21 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-21 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-09-20 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-20 03:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-09-19 15:53 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-19 15:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-19 03:46 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-19 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-09-18 15:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-09-18 03:35 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-09-18 03:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-09-17 15:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-17 03:27 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-09-17 03:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-16 15:23 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-16 15:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-09-16 14:47 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.50
  50. 2026-09-16 14:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-16 14:45 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
  52. 2026-09-16 11:21 UTCNVD update
  53. 2026-09-16 10:38 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-16 10:36 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-89971?
CVE-2026-89971 is a high vulnerability published on September 16, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: skip the zoned limits update if the zone info query failed nvmequeryzone_info() returns either a negative errno or a positive NVMe status code, but nvmeupdatensinfoblock() only tests for the negative case: ret =…
When was CVE-2026-89971 disclosed?
CVE-2026-89971 was first published on September 16, 2026, with the most recent update on October 3, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-89971 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-89971 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (48th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-89971?
CVE-2026-89971 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-89971?
No fix for CVE-2026-89971 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-89971 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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