CVE-2025-68170

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

0.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 4.5% 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

2025-12-16 13:42Z8 MO AGO

Last updated

2026-08-05 12:09Z1 MO AGO

Reserved

2025-12-16

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-763Release of Invalid Pointer or ReferenceBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

ec589b162876b010fc18c4996ea10066e7b97e5d77d4835a7d95a475df85349c

• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7482516002a11317912e29577bbf33cf59a0fb1
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2413bbd1d692aed245c2aa38a369a1fa7590db84
• git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3328443363a0895fd9c096edfe8ecd372ca9145e