Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-21745

Linux Kernel 5.9 – 6.1.129

Published
27 February 2025
Modified
14 July 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0023 13th percentile
Risk Priority 42 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2025-21745 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 13th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability Data

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-cgroup: Fix class @block_class's subsystem refcount leakage blkcg_fill_root_iostats() iterates over @block_class's devices by class_dev_iter_(init|next)(), but does not end iterating with class_dev_iter_exit(), so causes the class's subsystem refcount leakage. Fix by…

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ending the iterating with class_dev_iter_exit().

CWE(s)

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Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.9 — 6.1.129 · 6.2 — 6.6.78 · 6.7 — 6.12.14

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References