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CVE-2025-40201: Linux 5.18
CVE-2025-40201. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00153 (percentile 0.03958), scored 14-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a to before 1bc0d9315ef5296abb2c9fd840336255850ded18, 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a to before 132f827e7bac7373e1522e89709d70b43cae5342, 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a to before 19b45c84bd9fd42fa97ff80c6350d604cb871c75, 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a to before 6796412decd2d8de8ec708213bbc958fab72f143, 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a to before a15f37a40145c986cdf289a4b88390f35efdecc4
Linux
Linux · 5.18
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: kernel/sys.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 0.03958 · 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-2025-40201.html