CVE-2026-98251

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels

ovs_ct_get_conn_labels() adds the labels extension when a conntrack entry does not have one. Confirmed conntracks can be read locklessly, so adding an extension may reallocate and free the extension block while another CPU accesses it.

Only add the extension for unconfirmed conntracks. A confirmed conntrack without labels now fails the caller's label operation instead of reallocating its extension storage.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

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 (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 6, 2026

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f118c8217c109fd13ca61caa301d72c483897ef
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c9fcc6c33950d3db551af664d1fd3d998bfee56
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16f089bd700f45d720ce989d5495e1dc3be0cf8
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e6dd889c325abf23821e1459c3ffef59b7f0009
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/579d87ec1e1e85729a6cb2c25961e58beb78640c
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05eab8dced6bf4d3009a6eeee16ddac99047dc83
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ff688aceada1160331a789385ea146f62fbddf7
Web page

openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4371d79ea74407fb992c985b1f94391e35bb8289

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98251(2)

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

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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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
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (181 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.8-1: fixed in 7.2.8-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 35× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 03:58 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 03:58 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-13 03:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 17:01 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-11 17:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  10. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 03:51 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 03:51 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-11 03:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  17. 2026-10-10 14:41 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-10 14:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-10 01:31 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-10 01:31 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-10 01:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-09 12:17 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-09 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-08 23:07 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-08 23:07 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-08 23:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-08 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-08 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-08 09:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-07 20:48 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-07 20:48 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-07 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv
  14. 2026-10-07 06:58 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.8 HIGH
  15. 2026-10-07 06:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv
  16. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  17. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  18. 2026-10-06 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6vh8-2x3v-qcxv
  19. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  20. 2026-10-06 08:55 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98251?
CVE-2026-98251 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: avoid reallocating confirmed conntrack labels ovsctgetconnlabels() adds the labels extension when a conntrack entry does not have one. Confirmed conntracks can be read locklessly, so adding an extension may reallocate…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98251 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98251 was published on October 6, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-98251 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98251 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-98251?
CVE-2026-98251 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-98251?
A fix for CVE-2026-98251 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98251 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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