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CVE-2025-38647: wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.14% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 6fe21445f7e801de5527d420f8e25e97b0cdd7e2, f7ac6df92eee030151476078069dc3eb0002dfb0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 6fe21445f7e801de5527d420f8e25e97b0cdd7e2, f7ac6df92eee030151476078069dc3eb0002dfb0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi The following assertion is triggered on the rtw89 driver startup. It looks meaningless to hold wiphy lock on the early init stage so drop the assertion. WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 629 at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/sar.c:502 rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 629 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.15.0+ #29 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: LENOVO 21D0/LNVNB161216, BIOS J6CN50WW 09/27/2024 RIP: 0010:rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi+0x365/0x4d0 [rtw89_core] Call Trace: <TASK> rtw89_sar_init+0x68/0x2c0 [rtw89_core] rtw89_core_init+0x188e/0x1e50 [rtw89_core] rtw89_pci_probe+0x530/0xb50 [rtw89_pci] local_pci_probe+0xd9/0x190 pci_call_probe+0x183/0x540 pci_device_probe+0x171/0x2c0 really_probe+0x1e1/0x890 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x390 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120 __driver_attach+0x1a0/0x530 bus_for_each_dev+0x10b/0x190 bus_add_driver+0x2eb/0x540 driver_register+0x1a3/0x3a0 do_one_initcall+0xd5/0x450 do_init_module+0x2cc/0x8f0 init_module_from_file+0xe1/0x150 idempotent_init_module+0x226/0x760 __x64_sys_finit_module+0xcd/0x150 do_syscall_64+0x94/0x380 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 3th percentile
CWE
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Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

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  • linux linux kernel6.16

Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 6.16affected
    • 88ca3107d2ce06448018e0571f7c0f1b40f57b55 and later · before f7ac6df92eee030151476078069dc3eb0002dfb0affected · git
    • 88ca3107d2ce06448018e0571f7c0f1b40f57b55 and later · before 6fe21445f7e801de5527d420f8e25e97b0cdd7e2affected · git
    • before 6.16not affected · semver
    • 6.16.1 and later · up to and including 6.16.*not affected · semver
    • 6.17 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-38645Aug 22, 2025 · net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-38646Aug 22, 2025 · wifi: rtw89: avoid NULL dereference when RX problematic packet on unsupported 6 GHz band
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-38648Aug 22, 2025 · spi: stm32: Check for cfg availability in stm32_spi_probe
    22Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux6fe21445f7e801de5527d420f8e25e97b0cdd7e2Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxf7ac6df92eee030151476078069dc3eb0002dfb0Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

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Research context

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Timeline

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Chain candidates

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

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