CVE-2025-37996

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.16% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 6.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-07-30.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2025-05-29 13:15Z1 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 11:58Z2 MO AGO

Reserved

2025-04-16

Assigning CNA

Linux

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

• CWE-908Use of Uninitialized ResourceBase
• CWE-824Access of Uninitialized PointerBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

051f8118e6c09dbd34d6079cf2819cf0bde53eec7e281076b633545cae92d707

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26d50f8a4a5049e956984797b5d0dedea4bbb18
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/157dbc4a321f5bb6f8b6c724d12ba720a90f1a7c