CVE-2025-40262: Linux 5.8; +1 more affected products

CVE-2025-40262 affects azl3 kernel 6.6.112.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00144 (percentile 0.03308), scored 17-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

Linux · 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before 3e96803b169dc948847f0fc2bae729a80914eb7b, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before 4ce5218b101205b3425099fe3df88a61b58f9cc2, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before a155292c3ce722036014da5477ee0e4c87b5e6b3, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before ca9a08de9b294422376f47ade323d69590dbc6f2, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before 56881294915a6e866d31a46f9bcb5e19167cfbaa, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before 6524a15d33951b18ac408ebbcb9c16e14e21c336, 768062fd1284529212daffd360314e9aa93abb62 to before d83f1512758f4ef6fc5e83219fe7eeeb6b428ea4
Linux

Linux · 5.8
Linux

RUGGEDCOM RST2428P · 0 to before V4.0
Siemens

Component: Not specified by the source
File: drivers/input/keyboard/imx_sc_key.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.

Published 18-Oct-2026 18:49 UTC

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: 0.00144 · percentile 0.03308 · 2026-10-17
KEV: no

Provenance

FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-18 12:55:59.341568+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 2026-10-18 18:49:36.049749+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-40262.html