CVE-2026-98732

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

Severity—Unscored

Exploitation probability0.17 %higher than 6% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

Bluetooth: btintel: fix buffer over-read in btintel_hw_error()

The "Exception info %s" print uses skb->data + 1, but the 12-byte payload is not guaranteed to be NUL-terminated and can be read past its end.

Bound the print with "%.*s" and skb->len - 1.

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: 0.17 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 6
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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