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CVE-2025-40198: Linux 2.6.36
CVE-2025-40198. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00164 (percentile 0.05247), scored 14-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before 7bf46ff83a0ef11836e38ebd72cdc5107209342d, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before b2bac84fde28fb6a88817b8b761abda17a1d300b, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before e651294218d2684302ee5ed95ccf381646f3e5b4, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before 01829af7656b56d83682b3491265d583d502e502, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before 2a0cf438320cdb783e0378570744c0ef0d83e934, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before a6e94557cd05adc82fae0400f6e17745563e5412, 8b67f04ab9de5d8f3a71aef72bf02c995a506db5 to before 8ecb790ea8c3fc69e77bace57f14cf0d7c177bd8
Linux
Linux · 2.6.36
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: fs/ext4/super.c
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Local · No privileges required · 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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.00164 · percentile 0.05247 · 2026-10-14
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-15 22:58:54.984414+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-40198.html