CVE-2025-38179

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

0.18% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 8.2% 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

2025-07-04 13:37Z1 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:00Z2 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
• CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

e2cf25235538b57dab69eedb04e4e368543447be8cfe0ec6c4f8ff3ad4e6174b

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ae7814589d7bd850294ac14ec4c1725dafd42ca
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0ba9b2f188166550296005e64b15e80db82ad8a
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a379a8a2a0032e12e7ef397197c9c2ad011588d6