CVE-2026-98090

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.1% (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2026-86920 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout

btrfs_init_new_device() switches latest_dev and possibly s_bdev from the seed device to the new sprout device before creating the first writable chunks.

If chunk creation or the subsequent sprout setup fails, the error path releases the new device without switching those pointers back. btrfs_show_devname() can then dereference the freed latest_dev and crash.

Restore the active device pointers to the latest seed device before removing and releasing the failed sprout device.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
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
1st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.1% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS. FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

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.

The score's inputs: 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

September 25, 2026

Last Modified

October 23, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 23, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e127ac29a52134d0f4cba39d38e4b375deb3d1aa
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btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b54613aabeb8e9da597f23b90c6a03d0981986
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btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b79b4b29003690acfade8241998fc0104ef9c84c
Web page

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49179f13c04735c55fd0f43b03696c015b067137
Web page

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46863a9f93186e620c70584f91c8d5d95da83eff
Web page

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ee5c4bc11007c51f63f0c1be5d3f07f2b404ff7
Web page

btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a0ee38ad6324ac1603079bb785f784191576bd5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98090(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1, 6.12.101-1~deb12u1, 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (35 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1: fixed in 6.12.111-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (180 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.7-1: fixed in 7.2.7-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 52× 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.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 71 is merged into the row it repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  2. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  5. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-27 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  7. 2026-10-26 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 13:47 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-24 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 1st percentile
  11. 2026-10-23 19:08 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 5.5 MEDIUM
  12. 2026-10-23 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  13. 2026-10-23 19:05 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
  14. 2026-10-23 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  15. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  16. 2026-10-21 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 10:37 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-19 10:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  21. 2026-10-19 10:25 UTCNVD update
  22. 2026-10-19 09:52 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-19 09:52 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-19 09:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  25. 2026-10-19 09:39 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
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  1. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 02:56 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-12 14:39 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  16. 2026-10-09 17:48 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-09 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  18. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  19. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  20. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
  21. 2026-10-06 14:37 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-06 14:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  23. 2026-10-05 17:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  25. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  26. 2026-10-03 11:27 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-03 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  28. 2026-10-03 11:26 UTCNVD update
  29. 2026-10-03 11:12 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-03 11:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  31. 2026-10-03 11:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  32. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  33. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  34. 2026-09-30 14:34 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-30 14:34 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-30 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  37. 2026-09-28 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-28 14:43 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-28 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j9r6-v9mw-fjh8
  40. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  41. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  42. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
  43. 2026-09-25 11:30 UTCNVD update
  44. 2026-09-25 10:27 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-25 10:27 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98090?
CVE-2026-98090 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 25, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: restore active device pointers after failed sprout btrfs_init_new_device() switches latest_dev and possibly s_bdev from the seed device to the new sprout device before creating the first writable chunks. If chunk creation or…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98090 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98090 was published on September 25, 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 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-98090 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98090 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-98090?
CVE-2026-98090 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-98090?
A fix for CVE-2026-98090 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98090 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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