CVE-2025-38173
Medium
Published: 03 July 2025
Published
03 July 2025
Modified
18 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0010
28.0th percentile
Risk Priority
11
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2025-38173 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 28.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-19771
Vulnerability details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests Do not access random memory for zero-length skcipher requests. Just return 0.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
linux
linux kernel
4.2 — 5.4.295 · 5.5 — 5.10.239 · 5.11 — 5.15.186
debian
debian linux
11.0
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.