CVE-2026-98425wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan
- —Not scoredno CVSS score yet
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 89% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan ieee80211_request_ibss_scan() warns when regulatory leaves no allowed channel, but that can happen as the regdomain can change while IBSS is operating, and it can continue to operate briefly during the 60s grace period until it's shut down. Just remove the warning in this case.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 19 days later
· 19 days later
Published
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.
Affected products
- affected 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 – < bb91c15953705445778c170a2523f12351c4d928
- affected 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 – < 5f139e17f5bdba6b68177dd8afe13fa4549dfc5f
- affected 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 – < 23d51c0bc18f21d957756ba4650520bb3bc726b2
- affected 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 – < a7491b7efbd9136b120a12ed72af9c12121dd134
- affected 5ca99e71a9a6cf33a217690f5d87bc0129d1effd
- affected 1cf18948040a40fa4497e40bcde2ffa8d6b1196e
- affected 3.4.26 – < 3.5
- affected 3.7.3 – < 3.8
- affected 3.8
- unaffected < 3.8
- unaffected 6.12.112 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.54 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.8 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb91c15953705445778c170a2523f12351c4d928 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f139e17f5bdba6b68177dd8afe13fa4549dfc5f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d51c0bc18f21d957756ba4650520bb3bc726b2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7491b7efbd9136b120a12ed72af9c12121dd134 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-101074 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-98425)Record last updated .