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CVE-2025-40172: Linux 6.5
CVE-2025-40172. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00153 (percentile 0.03991), scored 19-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c to before 48b1d42286bfef7628b1d6c8c28d4e456c90f725, 96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c to before 551f1dfbcb7f3e6ed07f9d6c8c1c64337fcd0ede, 96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c to before 1ab9733d14cc9987cc5dcd1f0ad1f416e302e2e6, 96d3c1cadedb6ae2e8965e19cd12caa244afbd9c to before 11f08c30a3e4157305ba692f1d44cca5fc9a8fca, d410a96e5cb8c1ec7049c83f2edcd8bbfaf5d9b3, 6.4.12 to before 6.5
Linux
Linux · 6.5
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
Function: will
File: drivers/accel/qaic/qaic_control.c
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.8/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CCR priority
- 31.2 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.00153 · percentile 0.03991 · 2026-10-19
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-20 01:44:01.123206+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-40172.html