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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98340" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:30.796Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:51.387Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98340" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98340.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98340" title: "wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries\n\nWhen a probe response for an unknown BSS comes in, __cfg80211_bss_update()\nlooks for an existing entry with the same BSSID and a hidden (zero-length\nor NUL-filled) SSID, and if it finds one it groups them, using the beacon\nIEs from the existing entry.\n\nBut that could find another entry without a beacon, if it was also from a\nprobe response (with SSID), so there's a group without beacon elements.\n\nIf a beacon with a hidden SSID for that BSSID arrives later,\ncfg80211_combine_bsses() goes looking for the probe response entries that\nbelong to it - i.e. entries with the same BSSID and channel that have no\nbeacon IEs - and finds those two. They are already grouped with each\nother, so it hits its\n\n WARN_ON_ONCE(bss-\u003epub.hidden_beacon_bss)\n WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&bss-\u003ehidden_list))\n\nwhich are there because an entry without beacon elements is not supposed\nto be part of a group yet.\n\nOnly combine entries when a beacon was already received, ones that are\nkept separate will be combined when a beacon arrives." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cd6a518ce7527284bbc9baab5fa2453a7d477c2"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74ed0d992f392c75e1969415527e06df3f7a4034"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3658093df69849daf4f813a8f087f358e13be203"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73365b81630b57e1a1f9d50dc87281797855c2ac"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7405dd19bda4537a2843637d8d7bed1efd4776cf"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86235be788094131912e9bd8412b358d91d99f49"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"332ea1502c46f53375cb109fa82bfaff818f3a41"},{"version":"4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"068843ed0902c552a13860c5ec6b2ca65b57a065"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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