CVE-2025-21692

HIGHNVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2025-02-10. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Elevated
7.8
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing

Haowei Yan found that ets_class_from_arg() can index an Out-Of-Bound class in ets_class_from_arg() when passed clid of

  • The overflow may cause local privilege escalation.

[ 18.852298] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 18.853271] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_ets.c:93:20 [ 18.853743] index 18446744073709551615 is out of range for type 'ets_class [16]' [ 18.854254] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1275 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.12.6-dirty #17 [ 18.854821] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 18.856532] Call Trace: [ 18.857441] [ 18.858227] dump_stack_lvl+0xc2/0xf0 [ 18.859607] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 18.860908] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xa7/0xf0 [ 18.864022] ets_class_change+0x3d6/0x3f0 [ 18.864322] tc_ctl_tclass+0x251/0x910 [ 18.864587] ? lock_acquire+0x5e/0x140 [ 18.865113] ? __mutex_lock+0x9c/0xe70 [ 18.866009] ? __mutex_lock+0xa34/0xe70 [ 18.866401] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x170/0x6f0 [ 18.866806] ? __lock_acquire+0x578/0xc10 [ 18.867184] ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 18.867503] netlink_rcv_skb+0x59/0x110 [ 18.867776] rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30 [ 18.868159] netlink_unicast+0x1c3/0x2b0 [ 18.868440] netlink_sendmsg+0x239/0x4b0 [ 18.868721] ____sys_sendmsg+0x3e2/0x410 [ 18.869012] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xe0 [ 18.869276] ? rseq_ip_fixup+0x198/0x260 [ 18.869563] ? rseq_update_cpu_node_id+0x10a/0x190 [ 18.869900] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x5a/0xd0 [ 18.870196] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xcc/0x220 [ 18.870547] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.870821] ? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x69/0x290 [ 18.871157] __sys_sendmsg+0x69/0xd0 [ 18.871416] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1d/0x30 [ 18.871699] x64_sys_call+0x9e2/0x2670 [ 18.871979] do_syscall_64+0x87/0x150 [ 18.873280] ? do_syscall_64+0x93/0x150 [ 18.874742] ? lock_release+0x7b/0x160 [ 18.876157] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x5ce/0x8f0 [ 18.877833] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xc2/0x210 [ 18.879608] ? irqentry_exit+0x77/0xb0 [ 18.879808] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880023] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880223] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70 [ 18.880426] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 18.880683] RIP: 0033:0x44a957 [ 18.880851] Code: ff ff e8 fc 00 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 8974 24 10 [ 18.881766] RSP: 002b:00007ffcdd00fad8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e [ 18.882149] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcdd010db8 RCX: 000000000044a957 [ 18.882507] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffcdd00fb70 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 18.885037] RBP: 00007ffcdd010bc0 R08: 000000000703c770 R09: 000000000703c7c0 [ 18.887203] R10: 0000000000000080 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 18.888026] R13: 00007ffcdd010da8 R14: 00000000004ca7d0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 18.888395] [ 18.888610] ---[ end trace ]---

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(medium)
EG Risk
51(Track)
EG Risk 51/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS
44.9%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 10, 2025

Last Modified

May 12, 2026

References (11)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-21692(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(23)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.135.133) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-kvm (5.15.0.1076.72) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime (5.15.0.1080.83) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-host (5.15.0-1044.48) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.136.147~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.15.0.1079.69) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt (5.15.0.1033.33) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fde-edge (5.15.0.1086.95~20.04.1.61) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-24.24~24.04.1) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure (6.11.0-1013.13) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-realtime (6.8.0-2024.25) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual (6.8.0-62.65) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntuoracle (6.8.0-1005) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime (6.8.1-1023.24) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iotg-edge (5.15.0.1077.83~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (5.15.0.1081.90~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi (6.8.0-1029.33) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1031.33) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-edge (5.15.0.1074.77~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-nvidia (6.8.0-1018.19) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1030.35) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-64.67~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 5.10.234—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(22)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • GitHub PoCvolticks/CVE-2025-21692-poc
    First seen Sep 13, 2025

    Proof of concept source code and misc files for my CVE-2025-21692 exploit, kernel version 6.6.75

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-21692?
CVE-2025-21692 is a high vulnerability published on February 10, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing Haowei Yan <g1042620637@gmail.com> found that etsclassfrom_arg() can index an Out-Of-Bound class in etsclassfrom_arg() when passed clid of 0. The overflow may cause local privilege escalation.…
When was CVE-2025-21692 disclosed?
CVE-2025-21692 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 10, 2025, with the most recent update on May 12, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-21692 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-21692 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 44.9% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-21692?
CVE-2025-21692 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-21692?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-21692, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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