CVE-2025-21766

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

Also known asEUVD-2025-5166 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7r26-6h4q-5x56 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

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: 0.6%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu()

__ip_rt_update_pmtu() must use RCU protection to make sure the net structure it reads does not disappear.

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 impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

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 (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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 (8)

Auto-updated Aug 2, 2026
Patch available.
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

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea07480b23225942208f1b754fea1e7ec486d37e
Web page

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce3c6165fce0f06305c806696882a3ad4b90e33f
Web page

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39f61d212d822b3062d7f70fa0588e50e55664e
Web page

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b1766d1ff5fe496aabe9fc5f4e34e53f35c11c4
Web page

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4583748b65dee4d61bd50a2214715b4237bc152a
Web page

ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/139512191bd06f1b496117c76372b2ce372c9a41

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-21766(1)

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

Patch Availability(24)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.15.0.1083.73) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1083.79) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (5.15.0.1083.92~20.04.1) @ focal2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-edge (5.15.0.1084.91~20.04.1) @ focal2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.142.152~20.04.1) @ focal2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-host (5.15.0-1050.54) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1033.33) @ noble2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-realtime-6.8 (6.8.0-2028.29) @ noble2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt (5.15.0.1037.37) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.8 (6.8.0-1035.39) @ noble2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1032.33) @ noble2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-nvidia-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1022.23) @ noble2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-fips (5.15.0.1084.80) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime (5.15.0.1084.88) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.15.0.1089.74) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws (6.11.0-1014.15) @ oracular2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-fips (5.15.0.140.80) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1078.76) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gke-5.15 (5.15.0.1081.80) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-78.78.1~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.140.135) @ jammy2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-64k (6.11.0-1016.17) @ oracular2026-10-15ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-26.26) @ oracular2026-10-15ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 5.15.179 (fixes >=5.9.0)—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 ... 7.2~rc5-1~exp1 (496 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
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 6.12.16-1: fixed in 6.12.16-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.16-1: fixed in 6.12.16-1
—

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 44× 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 96 of 243 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. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 147 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-06 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-25 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-15 23:18 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-15 23:18 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-15 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r26-6h4q-5x56 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  4. 2026-10-15 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  5. 2026-10-15 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r26-6h4q-5x56 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  6. 2026-10-15 02:01 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-15 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7r26-6h4q-5x56 · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  8. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-12 17:19 UTCEG score recompute
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-21766?
CVE-2025-21766 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 27, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: use RCU protection in __ip_rt_update_pmtu() __ip_rt_update_pmtu() must use RCU protection to make sure the net structure it reads does not disappear.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-21766 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-21766 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-2025-21766 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-21766 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-21766?
CVE-2025-21766 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-21766?
A fix for CVE-2025-21766 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-21766 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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