8.8

CVE-2025-39972: linux

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39972DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39972
Published 15-10-2025Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-39972 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 45 · Related 40
DLA-4379-1DLA-4404-1DSA-6053-1MGASA-2025-0309MGASA-2025-0310OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20091-1

Timeline

  1. 15-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: fix idx validation in i40e_validate_queue_map Ensure idx is within range of active/initialized TCs when iterating over vf->ch[idx] in i40e_validate_queue_map().

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.15% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu143 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-170.180 | < 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-6.6
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1100.107 | < 6.8.0-1050.53 | < 6.17.0-1003.3
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.158-1 | < 6.12.57-1 | < 6.16.10-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < b6cb93a7ff208f324c7ec581d72995f80e115e0e | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < 6f15a7b34fae75e745bdc2ec05e06ddfd0dd2f3c | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < 34dfac0c904829967d500c51f216916ce1452957 | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < 4d5e804a9e19b639b18fd13664dbad3c03c79e61 | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < 50a1e2f50f6c22b93b94eb8d168a1be3c05bf5cd | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < cc4191e8ef40d2249c1b9a8617d22ec8a976b574 | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < d4e3eaaa3cb3af77836d806c89cd6ebf533a7320 | ≥ c27eac48160de72dee33d42b5a33cc7b8a2eb1f5, < aa68d3c3ac8d1dcec40d52ae27e39f6d32207009 | 4.17

3 vendors · 145 products

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