# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89462"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:23.984Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:31.845Z"
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-2026-89462"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89462.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89462"
title: "power: supply: max17040: propagate register read errors"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: max17040: propagate register read errors\n\nmax17040_get_vcell() and max17040_get_soc() ignore errors returned by\nregmap_read().  When an I2C transfer fails, the uninitialized register\nvalue is converted and reported to userspace as a valid voltage or state\nof charge.  The polling worker can also replace the cached state of charge\nwith the bogus value and emit a spurious change event.\n\nPropagate read errors through the power supply get_property callback and\nkeep the last valid cached state of charge when polling fails."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c6f4a42de60b981dd210de01cd3e575835e3158e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bcdcbef9c5e69a1e79c6b9f6a3434da2f68724ed"},{"version":"c6f4a42de60b981dd210de01cd3e575835e3158e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2943a0edd4865ed744702ada647921c3981207f6"},{"version":"c6f4a42de60b981dd210de01cd3e575835e3158e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13fb0477da9b400071b9d518b24d6434c4965263"},{"version":"c6f4a42de60b981dd210de01cd3e575835e3158e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7aa4c3708cc0d8487336f8281665eaea87130f6"},{"version":"c6f4a42de60b981dd210de01cd3e575835e3158e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"659cc3d8d5ef246263873fce72c8cadeeed073cc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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