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CVE-2025-40245: Linux 5.12
CVE-2025-40245 affects azl3 kernel 6.6.112.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00155 (percentile 0.04196), scored 19-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
Linux · 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before 25f09699edd360b534ccae16bc276c3b52c471f3, 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before 5c3e38a367822f036227dd52bac82dc4a05157e2, 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before b1ec9faef7e36269ca3ec890972a78effbaeb975, 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before 90f5f715550e07cd6a51f80fc3f062d832c8c997, 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before 8912814f14e298b83df072fecc1f7ed1b63b1b2c, 7f7bc20bc41a4fbcd2db75b375ac95e5faf958ae to before a20b83cf45be2057f3d073506779e52c7fa17f94
Linux
Linux · 5.12
Linux
Component: Not specified by the source
File: arch/nios2/kernel/setup.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.
- Product
- azl3 kernel 6.6.112.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- 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
- 0.00155 · percentile 0.04196 · 2026-10-19
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-19 14:17:18.977832+00:00 UTC
- Microsoft MSRC Security Update Guide (CVRF) · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 07:08:49.022374+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-19 19:46:42.191502+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-40245.html