CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-98896

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 23, 2026Sources checked Oct 23, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-98896. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

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Vendor revision: Oct 24, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSSUnavailableNo current score collected

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-98896?

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

thunderbolt: Keep the domain reference while processing hotplug

We process hotplug events in a workqueue that may run after the domain has been removed by tb_domain_remove(). For example if user unloads the driver while at the same time plugging a device router we may have scheduled tb_handle_hotplug() to run.

Avoid possible UAF in this case by taking the domain reference before scheduling the hotplug handler in tb_queue_hotplug().

Source: NVD