{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-38607", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.028Z", "datePublished": "2025-08-19T17:03:50.947Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:03:27.014Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:03:27.014Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: handle jset (if a & b ...) as a jump in CFG computation\n\nBPF_JSET is a conditional jump and currently verifier.c:can_jump()\ndoes not know about that. This can lead to incorrect live registers\nand SCC computation.\n\nE.g. in the following example:\n\n 1: r0 = 1;\n 2: r2 = 2;\n 3: if r1 & 0x7 goto +1;\n 4: exit;\n 5: r0 = r2;\n 6: exit;\n\nW/o this fix insn_successors(3) will return only (4), a jump to (5)\nwould be missed and r2 won't be marked as alive at (3)." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable analysis runs inside the BPF verifier, reached only through the local `bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD)` syscall with attacker-supplied bytecode. There is no network or remote-peer component in the path.\nAC:L - The attacker fully authors the instruction stream, so emitting a `BPF_JSET` prune point whose taken-branch registers are wrongly marked dead is entirely deterministic. No race, timing window, or uncontrollable memory-layout condition is involved.\nPR:L - With the upstream default `CONFIG_BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF=n` (`sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled == 0`), any unprivileged local user can load a socket-filter program and reach `compute_live_registers()`/`func_states_equal()`; otherwise `CAP_BPF`, commonly held by container and observability workloads, is enough. No real root in the init namespace is required.\nUI:N - The attacker loads and triggers its own BPF program end-to-end via the bpf() syscall. No victim action or cooperation is needed.\nS:U - The impact is confinement failure within the kernel's own security authority — an unprivileged process gains kernel-level memory access on the same host. No VM, IOMMU, or hypervisor boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Unsound pruning at the JSET checkpoint lets an unverified attacker-controlled pointer/scalar be used for loads on the taken branch, yielding arbitrary kernel memory read and disclosure of KASLR bases, credentials, and keys. The parallel SCC/precision defect provides a second route to the same leak.\nI:H - The same skipped-register comparison permits an unverified value to reach a store, giving an out-of-bounds kernel write primitive — the standard eBPF verifier-bypass path to overwriting `struct cred` or kernel text pointers and achieving full privilege escalation. Missing precision back-propagation on JSET loops compounds this.\nA:H - A program accepted with unverified register state performs wild kernel reads and writes, reliably producing oops, corruption, or panic. Complete kernel compromise likewise implies full loss of availability." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "kernel/bpf/verifier.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "14c8552db64476ffc27c13dc6652fc0dac31c0ba", "lessThan": "65eb166b8636365ad3d6e36d50a7c5edfe6cc66e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "14c8552db64476ffc27c13dc6652fc0dac31c0ba", "lessThan": "261b30ad1516f4b9edd500aa6e8d6315c8fc109a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "14c8552db64476ffc27c13dc6652fc0dac31c0ba", "lessThan": "3157f7e2999616ac91f4d559a8566214f74000a5", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "kernel/bpf/verifier.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.15", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.15", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.15.10", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.16.1", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.16.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.17", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.15.10" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.16.1" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.15", "versionEndExcluding": "6.17" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65eb166b8636365ad3d6e36d50a7c5edfe6cc66e" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/261b30ad1516f4b9edd500aa6e8d6315c8fc109a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3157f7e2999616ac91f4d559a8566214f74000a5" } ], "title": "bpf: handle jset (if a & b ...) as a jump in CFG computation", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }