CVE-2026-98673

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

Severity—Unscored

Exploitation probability0.20 %higher than 9% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

iio: adc: pac1934: check ACPI label duplication

A label duplication failure currently reaches the terminating-byte write. Release the ACPI result and abort before accessing the missing label; earlier labels are managed by devres.

Detected by static analysis and reviewed with AI-assisted source auditing.

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 9
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux Kernel^AI

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