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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93271" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:52:13.287Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:08:25.791Z" 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-2026-93271" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93271.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93271" title: "wifi: ath11k: cap out-of-range rx MCS instead of leaving bogus rate" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath11k: cap out-of-range rx MCS instead of leaving bogus rate\n\nath11k can receive HT/VHT/HE frames whose reported MCS is above the\nmaximum that can be expressed in the corresponding mac80211 rate space\n(e.g. an HE frame reported with MCS 12, while HE tops out at MCS 11).\n\nThe frame itself is valid and decodes correctly, but for such a frame\nath11k_dp_rx_h_rate() leaves rx_status-\u003erate_idx set to the out-of-range\nvalue and never assigns rx_status-\u003eencoding, so it stays RX_ENC_LEGACY\nfrom the ath11k_dp_rx_h_ppdu() initialization. Once that frame reaches\nmac80211 it trips the rate sanity check and the frame is dropped with a\nsplat:\n\n ath11k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Received with invalid mcs in HE mode 12\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/mac80211/rx.c:5433 ieee80211_rx_list+0xb0a/0xe90 [mac80211]\n\nDropping the frame would discard otherwise valid data, so instead cap the\nreported MCS to the maximum the rate space can express and deliver the\nframe. Set rx_status-\u003eencoding before the range check and assign rate_idx\nfrom the capped value, so a frame with an out-of-range MCS no longer\nleaves partial or bogus rate metadata behind. Also downgrade the logging\nlevel since they are not treated as invalid frames now. The only loss is\nthat such a frame is reported as the capped MCS in the rx rate statistics.\n\nTested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.41" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ad04c3e2ec54bf5ec72c81afdd66318a116c539"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6b951f79e66fc8bd93a537ff1040fbfb567c8bf"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b77bfe6e59b98dff3ccfcf9b45fc27e3db498626"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb7b9a7209f839c17c66484dfdc84c9a23c6fd2f"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0b3e6f9645d88f387c4fea546048a91952cd4cd"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bb2a778a487305bd378db5fd5014fbdce4ada2c"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccbd20f2168f581d90265da1a925b9b6472a0b05"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12b09e478aa7459b7893a695ef77682202f2da83"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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