CVE-2026-89685

CVE-2026-89685

High · published September 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: fix clock domain mismatch in clients_still_reclaiming()

clients_still_reclaiming() computes a deadline from nn->boot_time

(CLOCK_REALTIME, ~1.7 billion) but compares it against

ktime_get_boottime_seconds() (CLOCK_BOOTTIME, seconds since boot).

The comparison is always false — it would take ~54 years of uptime

for BOOTTIME to exceed the REALTIME-derived deadline.

This means any client can hold the server in grace indefinitely by

sending CLAIM_PREVIOUS OPEN requests, blocking all non-reclaim

operations for all other clients.

Add boot_time_bt (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) alongside the existing boot_time

and use it for the deadline computation. boot_time (CLOCK_REALTIME)

is preserved for its cl_boot clientid-nonce role.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00441 · 37.2th percentile
Published
2026-09-12T00:19Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 19:46Z
    nfsd: fix clock domain mismatch in clients_still_reclaiming()
    cvelistv5