# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89444"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:12.076Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:53.734Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89444"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89444.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89444"
title: "platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump attribute security buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump attribute security buffer\n\nset_attribute() populates the security area of the BIOS attribute request\nbuffer with the current admin password via populate_security_buffer(), then\ndumps the whole request buffer with print_hex_dump_bytes(). This can expose\nthe plaintext admin password in the kernel log.\n\nThe same issue was fixed for the password attribute path by\ncommit d1a196e0a6dc (\"platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump\nplaintext password data\"). Remove the remaining dump from the BIOS\nattribute path."
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