CVE-2025-38172

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

0.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 4.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (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:H/I:H/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

2025-07-03 08:36Z1 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:00Z1 MO AGO

Reserved

2025-04-16

Assigning CNA

Linux

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.8)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
• CWE-390Detection of Error Condition Without ActionBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

d7ba111ae0b10e44258ed26c723e13486590ffa969bbde4724321b54c9749562

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65115472f741ca000d7ea4a5922214f93cd1516e
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd04beb9ce2773a16057248bb4fa424068ae3807
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9748f2f54f66743ac77275c34886a9f890e18409