CVE-2026-23420 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Nov 1, 2026
Release Notes
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-23420?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wlcore: Fix a locking bug
Make sure that wl->mutex is locked before it is unlocked. This has been detected by the Clang thread-safety analyzer.