CVE-2025-40169

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

0.14% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 4.0% 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

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

Red Hat severity

Low. 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

2025-11-12 10:46Z9 MO AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:08Z1 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-839Numeric Range Comparison Without Minimum CheckBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

23c2f8cbfc7cfc629cf7b37e3fbeed4bba851c131c9a4bb34d764339e1e0fd03

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bce44b344040e5eef3d64d38b157c15304c0aab
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5017c302ca4b2a45149ad64e058fa2d5623c068f
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21167bf70dbe400563e189ac632258d35eda38b5
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c0ced59fe17dee34e9dfd5f7be63cbab207758