# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89711"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:46:26.269Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:51:24.221Z"
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-2026-89711"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89711.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89711"
title: "NFSD: remove flawed WARN_ON_ONCE from nfsd_mode_check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNFSD: remove flawed WARN_ON_ONCE from nfsd_mode_check\n\nThe header for commit e75b23f9e323 (\"nfsd: check d_can_lookup in\nfh_verify of directories\") details the assumption that justified\nadding the WARN_ON_ONCE to nfsd_mode_check(), that assumption is\ninvalid (in the case of NFS reexport).\n\nWhen NFSD exports an NFS filesystem it is very possible for\nnfsd_mode_check() to encounter a @dentry that doesn't have\ni_op-\u003elookup (see nfs_fhget()'s NFS_ATTR_FATTR_MOUNTPOINT and\nNFS_ATTR_FATTR_V4_REFERRAL handling, and d_flags_for_inode()).\n\nSo remove nfsd_mode_check()'s WARN_ON_ONCE(). The nfserr_notdir\nreturn on that branch must stay. It guards the subsequent\nlookup_one_unlocked() -\u003e __lookup_slow() path, which calls\ninode-\u003ei_op-\u003elookup() with no NULL check, so returning nfserr_notdir\nis what keeps a client LOOKUP into such a @dentry from dereferencing\na NULL method pointer."
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