CVE-2026-98290

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

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

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; 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
7.5EG
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: 0.3%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup

rfcomm_sock_cleanup_listen() closes unaccepted child sockets through rfcomm_sock_close(), which takes the child socket lock before rfcomm_dlc_close() acquires rfcomm_mutex. The RFCOMM worker takes these locks in reverse order while handling connections and DLC state changes, so lockdep reports a possible deadlock.

Close dequeued children without taking their socket lock. The accept queue owns a reference to each child, and bt_accept_dequeue() locks the child while unlinking it and clearing its parent pointer.

Dropping the child lock makes it important to prevent a concurrent rfcomm_connect_ind() from enqueueing a new child after cleanup observes an empty queue. Set a listening socket to BT_CLOSED while its lock is still held, before dropping the lock and draining the queue. The state check in rfcomm_connect_ind() then rejects new children once cleanup starts.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
34
EG Risk 34/100

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)
Severity75% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.5 of 10.
Exploitation0.3% × 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
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
16th
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 (7)

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

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/801fb950cae7048eb7d83b18857d1ca37b8cd5a4
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18174b166547ef41973cc19feb5ef9cab39a8def
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfce253f039eb5f58b810af267942a9f59207254
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6792c441767256030606eb82dca5d5fc360dd9a
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c741977e413f5b49d306700820fb55ccb8269f5a
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aafb47301a799d3e01230d6568c4e93524e1523
Web page

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb4adaa46e4c9e6efa7be3ce06398f4d7c39b57c

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98290(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 38× in last 7d / 49× 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 0.3% · 16th 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-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  5. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-12 00:47 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-12 00:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  9. 2026-10-11 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 16th percentile
  12. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 12:13 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 12:13 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-11 12:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  16. 2026-10-10 23:36 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-10 23:36 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-10 23:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  19. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 15th percentile
  20. 2026-10-10 10:57 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-10 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  22. 2026-10-09 22:21 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-09 22:21 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-09 22:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  25. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 15th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-09 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-09 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  3. 2026-10-08 21:11 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-08 21:11 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-08 21:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  6. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 15th percentile
  7. 2026-10-08 08:37 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-08 08:37 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-08 08:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  10. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 15th percentile
  11. 2026-10-07 20:03 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-07 20:03 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-07 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  14. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m
  17. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.5 HIGH
  18. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m
  19. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
  20. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  21. 2026-10-06 09:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vgg6-jhr8-9c2m
  22. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  23. 2026-10-06 08:54 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98290?
CVE-2026-98290 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid socket lock inversion in listener cleanup rfcommsockcleanup_listen() closes unaccepted child sockets through rfcommsockclose(), which takes the child socket lock before rfcommdlcclose() acquires…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98290 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98290 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-2026-98290 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98290 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (16th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-98290?
CVE-2026-98290 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-2026-98290?
A fix for CVE-2026-98290 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98290 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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