CVE-2025-40362

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

0.16% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 5.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.8 (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:C/C:H/I:H/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

2025-12-16 13:40Z8 MO AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:09Z1 MO AGO

Reserved

2025-04-16

Assigning CNA

Linux

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.8)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-1220Insufficient Granularity of Access ControlBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

b5d73830a3cdc3996af7ac170fcb9e1934e04fe6d7df6c1476830a80caefdde7

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07640d34a781bb2e39020a39137073c03c4aa932
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca3da8b27ab9a0923ad477447cfb8fc7f4b4c523
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22c73d52a6d05c5a2053385c0d6cd9984732799d