CVE-2026-98261

HIGHPre-NVD 8.18.1
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

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

Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.1; 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
8.1EG
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: 0.4%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()

When a secondary channel is no longer supported by the server, cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() drops the channel reference with cifs_put_tcp_session() and then continues to use the server pointer by calling cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() on it and reading its primary_server pointer. cifs_put_tcp_session() can drop the last reference of the channel and tear it down, so both the channel and the primary server (whose reference is also dropped by cifs_put_tcp_session()) can be freed before they are signaled for reconnect.

Signal the channel and the primary server and capture the primary server pointer before dropping the channel reference with cifs_put_tcp_session().

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
8.1HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
37
EG Risk 37/100

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)
Severity81% × 45%
The EG Score, 8.1 of 10.
Exploitation0.4% × 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
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
36th
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 (5)

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

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/717e0a25036b6c92cecace30913b2d874a4c22b8
Web page

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a1b27780b113583a94256d58dabfe7c0d9286e7
Web page

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcc0a935bb6e37ecbf7e4335061309f896f35780
Web page

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edd52eae5fcfb8433b6bb0e7cd98db438fe01227
Web page

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0338489960ddad6368bce55e8adbc176c523093d

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98261(2)

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 (181 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.8-1: fixed in 7.2.8-1
—

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 36× in last 7d / 47× 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 0.4% · 36th percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 03:58 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 03:58 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  5. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 18:17 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-11 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  10. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  12. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 06:30 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 06:30 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-11 06:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  16. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  17. 2026-10-10 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  18. 2026-10-10 06:55 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-10 06:55 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-10 06:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  21. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  22. 2026-10-09 19:10 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-09 19:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  24. 2026-10-09 07:24 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-09 07:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  1. 2026-10-08 19:38 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-08 19:38 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-08 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  4. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  5. 2026-10-08 07:01 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-08 07:01 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-08 07:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  8. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  9. 2026-10-07 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-07 19:15 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-07 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  12. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf
  15. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 8.1 HIGH
  16. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf
  17. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 8.1 · severity → HIGH
  18. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  19. 2026-10-06 09:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mfc9-mfpp-wwcf
  20. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  21. 2026-10-06 08:55 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98261?
CVE-2026-98261 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifschanskipordisable() When a secondary channel is no longer supported by the server, cifschanskipordisable() drops the channel reference with cifsputtcp_session() and then continues to use the…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98261 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98261 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-2026-98261 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98261 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (36th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-98261?
CVE-2026-98261 has a CVSS base score of 8.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-98261?
A fix for CVE-2026-98261 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98261 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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