CVE-2025-40301

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

0.27% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 18.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Deferred. 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

2025-12-08 00:46Z9 MO AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:09Z1 MO AGO

Reserved

2025-04-16

Assigning CNA

Linux

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.6)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

116854275cd8f091a16d5eec49c8beeff2e7312acc3c385106d6fd19b1f52708

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fea895de78d3bb2f0c09db9f10b18f8121b15759
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/779f83a91d4f1bf5ddfeaf528420cbb6dbf03fa8
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf2c2acec1cf456c3d11c11a7589e886a0f963a9
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a0ddaaf97405dbd11d4cb5a961a3f82400e8a50
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c5f1f64681cc889d9b13e4a61285e9e029d6ab5