CVE-2025-21653: linux
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-21653 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 50 · Related 47Timeline
- 19-01-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: cls_flow: validate TCA_FLOW_RSHIFT attribute syzbot found that TCA_FLOW_RSHIFT attribute was not validated. Right shitfing a 32bit integer is undefined for large shift values. UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/cls_flow.c:329:23 shift exponent 9445 is too large for 32-bit type 'u32' (aka 'unsigned int') CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00180-g4f619d518db9 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c8/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:468 flow_classify+0x24d5/0x25b0 net/sched/cls_flow.c:329 tc_classify include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 [inline] __tcf_classify net/sched/cls_api.c:1771 [inline] tcf_classify+0x420/0x1160 net/sched/cls_api.c:1867 sfb_classify net/sched/sch_sfb.c:260 [inline] sfb_enqueue+0x3ad/0x18b0 net/sched/sch_sfb.c:318 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x4b/0x290 net/core/dev.c:3793 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3889 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0xf0e/0x3f50 net/core/dev.c:4400 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline] neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:523 [inline] neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:537 [inline] ip_finish_output2+0xd41/0x1390 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:236 iptunnel_xmit+0x55d/0x9b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:82 udp_tunnel_xmit_skb+0x262/0x3b0 net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:173 geneve_xmit_skb drivers/net/geneve.c:916 [inline] geneve_xmit+0x21dc/0x2d00 drivers/net/geneve.c:1039 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5002 [inline] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5011 [inline] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x27a/0x7d0 net/core/dev.c:3606 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1b73/0x3f50 net/core/dev.c:4434
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
11%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.22% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu135 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-211.231 | < 5.15.0-135.146 | < 6.8.0-60.63
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1142.152 | < 5.15.0-1080.87 | < 6.8.0-1029.31
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < 9858f4afeb2e59506e714176bd3e135539a3eeec | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < 43658e4a5f2770ad94e93362885ff51c10cf3179 | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < a313d6e6d5f3a631cae5a241c392c28868aa5c5e | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < 2011749ca96460386844dfc7e0fde53ebee96f3c | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < e54beb9aed2a90dddf4c5d68fcfc9a01f3e40a61 | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < 6fde663f7321418996645ee602a473457640542f | ≥ e5dfb815181fcb186d6080ac3a091eadff2d98fe, < a039e54397c6a75b713b9ce7894a62e06956aa92 | 2.6.25
- linux_kernel≥ 2.6.25, < 5.4.290 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.234 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.177 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.125 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.72 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.10 | 6.13:rc1 | 6.13:rc2 | 6.13:rc3 | 6.13:rc4 | 6.13:rc5 | 6.13:rc6
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.128-1 | < 6.12.10-1
3 vendors · 138 products