CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-98497

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 18, 2026Sources checked Oct 21, 2026

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CVE-2026-98497. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-98497?

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

net/mlx5e: fix swapped IPv6 IPsec policy masks

IPv6 XFRM policies may use different source and destination prefix lengths. mlx5e_ipsec_policy_mask() builds the corresponding masks independently, but setup_fte_addr6() installs each mask in the opposite address field.

When the prefix lengths differ, this makes the source match use the destination prefix and the destination match use the source prefix. The resulting hardware rule can both miss traffic covered by the policy and match traffic outside it.

Install each mask in its corresponding match field.

Source: NVD