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CVE-2025-39790: bus: mhi: host: Detect events pointing to unexpected TREs

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

  • 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: 0.16% (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 2ec99b922f4661521927eeada76f431eebfbabc4, 4079c6c59705b96285219b9efc63cab870d757b7, 44e1a079e18f78d6594a715b0c6d7e18c656f7b9.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 2ec99b922f4661521927eeada76f431eebfbabc4, 4079c6c59705b96285219b9efc63cab870d757b7, 44e1a079e18f78d6594a715b0c6d7e18c656f7b9 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: bus: mhi: host: Detect events pointing to unexpected TREs When a remote device sends a completion event to the host, it contains a pointer to the consumed TRE. The host uses this pointer to process all of the TREs between it and the host's local copy of the ring's read pointer. This works when processing completion for chained transactions, but can lead to nasty results if the device sends an event for a single-element transaction with a read pointer that is multiple elements ahead of the host's read pointer. For instance, if the host accesses an event ring while the device is updating it, the pointer inside of the event might still point to an old TRE. If the host uses the channel's xfer_cb() to directly free the buffer pointed to by the TRE, the buffer will be double-freed. This behavior was observed on an ep that used upstream EP stack without 'commit 6f18d174b73d ("bus: mhi: ep: Update read pointer only after buffer is written")'. Where the device updated the events ring pointer before updating the event contents, so it left a window where the host was able to access the stale data the event pointed to, before the device had the chance to update them. The usual pattern was that the host received an event pointing to a TRE that is not immediately after the last processed one, so it got treated as if it was a chained transaction, processing all of the TREs in between the two read pointers. This commit aims to harden the host by ensuring transactions where the event points to a TRE that isn't local_rp + 1 are chained. [mani: added stable tag and reworded commit message]

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 5th percentile

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Action score

31

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.8
CNA · Linux
8.4
0.6 point gap

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

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Affected systems

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debiandebian linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • debian debian linux11.0
  • linux linux kernel5.7 and later · before 5.15.190
  • linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.1.149
  • linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.6.103
  • linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.12.44
  • linux linux kernel6.13 and later · before 6.16.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 5.7affected
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 7b3f0e3b60c27f4fcb69927d84987e5fd6240530affected · git
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 4079c6c59705b96285219b9efc63cab870d757b7affected · git
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 5e17429679a8545afe438ce7a82a13a54e8ceabbaffected · git
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 2ec99b922f4661521927eeada76f431eebfbabc4affected · git
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 44e1a079e18f78d6594a715b0c6d7e18c656f7b9affected · git
    • 1d3173a3bae7039b765a0956e3e4bf846dbaacb8 and later · before 5bd398e20f0833ae8a1267d4f343591a2dd20185affected · git
    • before 5.7not affected · semver
    • 5.15.190 and later · up to and including 5.15.*not affected · semver
    • 6.1.149 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxbefore 6.1.153-16.1.153-1
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.12.48-16.12.48-1
Debian:14linuxbefore 6.16.5-16.16.5-1

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    22Monitor
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    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux2ec99b922f4661521927eeada76f431eebfbabc4Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux4079c6c59705b96285219b9efc63cab870d757b7Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux44e1a079e18f78d6594a715b0c6d7e18c656f7b9Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5bd398e20f0833ae8a1267d4f343591a2dd20185Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux5e17429679a8545afe438ce7a82a13a54e8ceabbVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux7b3f0e3b60c27f4fcb69927d84987e5fd6240530Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.1.153-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-31608225 days apartsmb: server: avoid double-free in smb_direct_free_sendmsg after smb_direct_flush_send_list()
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-31609225 days apartsmb: client: avoid double-free in smbd_free_send_io() after smbd_send_batch_flush()
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-43011232 days apartnet/x25: Fix potential double free of skb
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-43414239 days apartscsi: qla2xxx: Completely fix fcport double free
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-52993286 days aparttipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append()
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-63888311 days apartscsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()
    39Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

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

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-415 · Double Free

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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