CVE-2026-98320

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:

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released

nf_ct_put() releases the ct->ext area inmediately, the rcu typesafe semantics also allow to refer to the wrong conntrack from the flowtable datapath. Hold reference on ct until flow is released after rcu grace period.

Add rcu_barrier() on module exit path, to ensure pending flow entries are release before module goes away.

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

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e75a9fa1d44bcbd66ea02e8781bcca6ea4076e0d
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9e6175a3ee48209ee65f294fc567b4e16b29b74
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12c1ac230f4ca16e0017b62a963ab75e0b48074f
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8274cdc5f9c57e17ed77fc4ba76212536c840f25
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a43cd2b67b91e943273c913237a7a88c50cdcfbc
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61c6688be282277c6e91ab286a7acd0ae8681ac6
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eed6997e8dc40593a539fcc722e7ed51b18db86c
Web page

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93ff1594be1aad4da364462dd8db050ebcfda2de

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98320(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 37× in last 7d / 48× 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-7rm7-mf5x-673x · 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 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-11 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  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 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 09:20 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-11 09:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  15. 2026-10-10 21:07 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-10 21:07 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-10 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  18. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  19. 2026-10-10 08:50 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-10 08:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-09 20:37 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-09 20:37 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-09 20:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  24. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  25. 2026-10-09 08:23 UTCVendor advisory
Show 23 more
  1. 2026-10-09 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  2. 2026-10-08 20:09 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-08 20:09 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-08 20:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-08 07:56 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-08 07:56 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-08 07:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  10. 2026-10-07 19:43 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-07 19:43 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-07 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  13. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x
  16. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.8 HIGH
  17. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x
  18. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  19. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 11th percentile
  20. 2026-10-06 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7rm7-mf5x-673x
  21. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  22. 2026-10-06 08:54 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98320?
CVE-2026-98320 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released nfctput() releases the ct->ext area inmediately, the rcu typesafe semantics also allow to refer to the wrong conntrack from the flowtable datapath. Hold reference on…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98320 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98320 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-2026-98320 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98320 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-2026-98320?
CVE-2026-98320 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-2026-98320?
A fix for CVE-2026-98320 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98320 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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