CVE-2025-40192: linux
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-40192 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 22 · Related 22Timeline
- 12-11-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "ipmi: fix msg stack when IPMI is disconnected" This reverts commit c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc. This patch has a subtle bug that can cause the IPMI driver to go into an infinite loop if the BMC misbehaves in a certain way. Apparently certain BMCs do misbehave this way because several reports have come in recently about this.
CVSS metrics
Risk metrics not yet published.
EPSS trend
Probability
0.20%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
9%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.01 pp
From 0.19% on 22-09-2026
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
Ubuntu154 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1050.53 | < 6.17.0-1007.7
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.12.57-1 | < 6.17.6-1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc, < f4aab940ae9eb3ba32e5332b35703673f00d7f37 | ≥ c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc, < b9cc7155e65f6feca51bfedd543b9bd300e2be2b | ≥ c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc, < 8cf5c24533b8058910fcb83a25a9cf0306383780 | ≥ c608966f3f9c2dca596967501d00753282b395fc, < 5d09ee1bec870263f4ace439402ea840503b503b | 6.2
3 vendors · 156 products