diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
index ba8aaad9bb..b48e262c72 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and when running in a Kerberos environment"
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2008-3844] = "not-applicable-platform: Only applies to some distributed RHEL binaries."
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2023-51767] = "upstream-wontfix: It was demonstrated on modified sshd and does not exist in upstream openssh https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3656#c1."
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2026-3497] = "not-applicable-platform: Only affects GSSAPI Key Exchange patches used by some Linux distributions and does not exist in upstream openssh."
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2026-59998] = "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'kerberos', 'unpatched', 'not-applicable-config: GSSAPI/Kerberos support is disabled in the default OpenSSH configuration', d)}"
 
 PAM_SRC_URI = "file://sshd"