CVE-2025-38466 — Incorrect Privilege Assignment in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf: Revert to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes
Jann reports that uprobes can be used destructively when used in the
middle of an instruction. The kernel only verifies there is a valid
instruction at the requested offset, but due to variable instruction
length cannot determine if this is an instruction as seen by the
intended execution stream.
Additionally, Mark Rutland notes that on architectures that mix data
in the tex…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc9e0924e5c2b59365f9c0d43ff8722e79ecf4088 — d7ef1afd5b3f43f4924326164cee5397b66abd9c+7
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0