CVE-2026-98311

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:

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register

virt_wifi_newlink() calls netif_stacked_transfer_operstate() before register_netdevice(). If the lower device is dormant, that queues the new netdev on lweventlist while it is still uninitialized. If registration fails after that, for example because of an invalid name such as "bad/name", free_netdev() immediately frees the object. A later linkwatch_fire_event() then use-after-frees the list entry.

Move the transfer to after netdev_upper_dev_link(), as macvlan and ipvlan already do.

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

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5c8d7acd31b27057ea42cd405d0b3ece097bc89
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b808a9af5fd21f9c68b0d024eda7535b5dce6a4e
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/293c56a66510bb7de073a1aba388e38abddff1fb
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca49763c42c1089d654bf11b037980a9ede3772c
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8304e25c6dabb8accf38b807969438d0ce84fd7
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9526054c2b2cace5916b7225603d008834ec011
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ce26201f6dedf3fa02b97da8c67ee6f6c5f7225
Web page

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee9ea1afd6990def51d52b3a0aecd5cfcc951da0

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98311(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 03:57 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · 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 16:45 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-11 16:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · 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 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-11 03:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  17. 2026-10-10 14:29 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-10 14:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-10 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-10 01:20 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-10 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  23. 2026-10-09 12:13 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-09 12:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-08 23:03 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-08 23:03 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-08 23:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-08 09:56 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-08 09:56 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-08 09:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · 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-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9 · 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-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9
  14. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.8 HIGH
  15. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9
  16. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  17. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 11th percentile
  18. 2026-10-06 09:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f5fm-f6q9-vwv9
  19. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  20. 2026-10-06 08:54 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98311?
CVE-2026-98311 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register virtwifinewlink() calls netifstackedtransfer_operstate() before register_netdevice(). If the lower device is dormant, that queues the new netdev on lweventlist while it is…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98311 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98311 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-2026-98311 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98311 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-2026-98311?
CVE-2026-98311 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-2026-98311?
A fix for CVE-2026-98311 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98311 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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