6.8

CVE-2025-40289: drm/amdgpu: hide VRAM sysfs attributes on GPUs without VRAM

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40289DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40289
Published 06-12-2025Last modified 30-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40289 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (OSV · Ubuntu), selected by version preference
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.04 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-2026:20145-1SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1

Timeline

  1. 06-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: hide VRAM sysfs attributes on GPUs without VRAM Otherwise accessing them can cause a crash.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.04 pp

From 0.18% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
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.

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
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.9-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21, < 2d8a7e0867c9acf7084b08e3f4382967203d4ef2 | ≥ d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21, < 3d608e67b966c3074c432db626bb23c350c112d7 | ≥ d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21, < 39a1c8c860e32d775f29917939e87b6a7c08ebb1 | ≥ d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21, < a67a9f99ce1306898d7129a199d42876bc06a0f0 | ≥ d38ceaf99ed015f2a0b9af3499791bd3a3daae21, < 33cc891b56b93cad1a83263eaf2e417436f70c82 | 4.2

3 vendors · 156 products

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