5.5

CVE-2025-38507: HID: nintendo: avoid bluetooth suspend/resume stalls

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38507DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38507
Published 16-08-2025Last modified 30-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38507 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · +0.06 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 27
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1SUSE-SU-2026:20555-1SUSE-SU-2026:20570-1SUSE-SU-2026:20599-1SUSE-SU-2026:20615-1USN-7879-1

Timeline

  1. 16-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nintendo: avoid bluetooth suspend/resume stalls Ensure we don't stall or panic the kernel when using bluetooth-connected controllers. This was reported as an issue on android devices using kernel 6.6 due to the resume hook which had been added for usb joycons. First, set a new state value to JOYCON_CTLR_STATE_SUSPENDED in a newly-added nintendo_hid_suspend. This makes sure we will not stall out the kernel waiting for input reports during led classdev suspend. The stalls could happen if connectivity is unreliable or lost to the controller prior to suspend. Second, since we lose connectivity during suspend, do not try joycon_init() for bluetooth controllers in the nintendo_hid_resume path. Tested via multiple suspend/resume flows when using the controller both in USB and bluetooth modes.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.06 pp

From 0.15% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu148 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a, < 167c610b45b4c23a954aac70df9760a4bf358b20 | ≥ 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a, < d3c8519f85b786dcae2498b3496f32e3925e4601 | ≥ 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a, < 7b4a026313529a487821ef6ab494a61f12c1db08 | ≥ 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a, < 72cb7eef06a5cde42b324dea85fa11fd5bb6a08a | ≥ 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a, < 4a0381080397e77792a5168069f174d3e56175ff | 5.16
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.12.39 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.7 | 6.16:rc1 | 6.16:rc2 | 6.16:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.41-1 | < 6.16.3-1

3 vendors · 151 products

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