CVE-2025-21728

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-02-27. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 5 sources updated this week
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible

BPF programs can execute in all kinds of contexts and when a program running in a non-preemptible context uses the bpf_send_signal() kfunc, it will cause issues because this kfunc can sleep. Change irqs_disabled() to !preemptible().

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity55% × 45%
The EG Score, 5.5 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
9th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 27, 2025

Last Modified

October 15, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Oct 15, 2026
Patch available.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 4178-1] linux security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 4102-1] linux-6.1 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feba1308bc5e8e04cee751d39fae8a9b407a9034
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeef8e65041a031bd8a747a392c14b76a123a12c
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e306eaaa3d78b462db5f5b11e0171f9d2b6ca3f4
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce51eab2070e295d298f42a2f1db269cd1b56d55
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be42a09fe898635b0093c0c8dac1bfabe225c240
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c544108b612512b254c8f79aa5c0a8546e2cc4
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b97783496b454435639937db3303e900a24d3f
Web page

bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/092fc76b7ab4163e008f9cde596a58dad2108260

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-21728(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(31)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-26.26) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.4.0-1064 (5.4.0-1064.68) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (5.15.0.1083.92~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.216.208) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.4.0.1149.91) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.15.0.1083.73) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime (5.15.0.1084.88) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1083.79) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.4.0.1151.88) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt (5.15.0.1037.37) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-kvm (5.4.0.1133.129) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.140.135) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gke-5.15 (5.15.0.1081.80) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.15.0.1089.74) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1092.121) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-bluefield (5.4.0.1105.101) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1078.76) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-64k (6.11.0-1016.17) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-fips (5.15.0.1084.80) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws (6.11.0-1014.15) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi2-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.1129.160) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.1129.142~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4.0.216.236~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-edge (5.4.0.1092.97~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-lts-20.04 (5.4.0.1146.143) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-edge (5.4.0.1146.156~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-edge (5.4.0.1144.154~18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.142.152~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-iot (5.4.0.1051.49) @ focal2026-05-21ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_72025-11-11redhat
linuxKernel @ 5.4.291 (fixes >=0)—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux5.10.103-1 ... 5.10.92-2 (45 versions)
  • every version up to 5.10.237-1: fixed in 5.10.237-1
—
linux-6.16.1.106-3~deb11u1 ... 6.1.128-1~deb11u1 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.129-1~deb11u1: fixed in 6.1.129-1~deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (35 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.129-1: fixed in 6.1.129-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.13-1: fixed in 6.12.13-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.13-1: fixed in 6.12.13-1
—

Additional Vendor Advisories

(24)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 211 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 117 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-15 02:54 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-15 02:54 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-15 02:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f47w-fp34-vr9h · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  4. 2026-10-15 02:25 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
  5. 2026-10-15 02:02 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-15 02:02 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-15 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f47w-fp34-vr9h · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-21728?
CVE-2025-21728 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 27, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Send signals asynchronously if !preemptible BPF programs can execute in all kinds of contexts and when a program running in a non-preemptible context uses the bpfsendsignal() kfunc, it will cause issues because this kfunc can…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-21728 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-21728 was published on February 27, 2025. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-21728 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-21728 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (9th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-21728?
CVE-2025-21728 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-21728?
A fix for CVE-2025-21728 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-21728 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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