# 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-2026-89604"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:07.365Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:35.476Z"
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-2026-89604"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89604.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89604"
title: "efivarfs: Rate limit statfs() handler"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nefivarfs: Rate limit statfs() handler\n\nRavi reports that statfs() may be called by unprivileged users on the\nefivarfs mount point, which may result in a flood of calls to the\nQueryVariableInfo() runtime service. These calls are disproportionately\ncostly on x86 systems where the variable store is backed by SMM, as each\nSMM entry requires a rendez-vous of all the CPUs.\n\nSo rate limit the calls to QueryVariableInfo() at twice per second, and\nreturn the most recently obtained value for calls that are elided."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"115409cbb6a296d73702a62c54c5b1b11cb88b3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97d71ebee48cd1b29091762b3e5cca4f815dd84c"},{"version":"d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cd611c9f1dbcc116c8af5112e3c1783c8cde2ae"},{"version":"d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8953bdd1b9c0e748d5408d3d0b8e7aeee5c9cd41"},{"version":"d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"92895a14329cc9533e2a74a265214f690ba3851a"},{"version":"d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dbc2e94b81df5a1264068b6ed3605c654b8afcb"},{"version":"d86ff3333cb1d5f42d8898fb5fdb304e143c0237","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2326338dc683e8c1067c0cbf7a47986c4190902"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","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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