CVE-2025-21979

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2025-04-01. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy

A wiphy_work can be queued from the moment the wiphy is allocated and initialized (i.e. wiphy_new_nm). When a wiphy_work is queued, the rdev::wiphy_work is getting queued.

If wiphy_free is called before the rdev::wiphy_work had a chance to run, the wiphy memory will be freed, and then when it eventally gets to run it'll use invalid memory.

Fix this by canceling the work before freeing the wiphy.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

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)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 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
0.2%
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 (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.

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

April 1, 2025

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Jul 30, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dea22de162058216a90f2706f0d0b36f0ff309fd
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5158d67bff06cb6fea31be39aeb319fd908ed8e
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d262ad3c36d52852d764588fcd887f0fcd9138
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0272d4af7f92997541d8bbf4c51918b93ded6ee2
Web page

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8930a3e1568cf534f86c8ed2def817c6d0528fc1

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-28.28) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-24.04b (6.11.0-1024.24) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-64k (6.11.0-1015.16) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-hwe-22.04 (6.8.1-1034.35~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-6.8.1 (6.8.1-1034.35) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1037.38) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-1039.42~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-realtime-6.8 (6.8.0-2031.32) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (6.8.0-1040.42~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-6.11 (6.11.0-1018.18) @ oracular2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-6.8 (6.8.0-84.84) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-84.84~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-edge (6.8.0-1037.38~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1038.44) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.8 (6.8.0-1039.43) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1037.37) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-85.85~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-21ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-nvidia-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1025.27) @ noble2026-05-21ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-55.17.1.el10_02025-06-16redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-570.22.1.el9_62025-06-16redhat
linuxKernel @ 6.1.132 (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

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux-6.16.1.106-3~deb11u1 ... 6.1.129-1~deb11u1 (7 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.137-1~deb11u1: fixed in 6.1.137-1~deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (36 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.133-1: fixed in 6.1.133-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.20-1: fixed in 6.12.20-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.20-1: fixed in 6.12.20-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 29× 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 93 of 207 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. 7 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 114 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  43. 2026-08-05 13:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hrq-jxxx-hj3h · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  51. 2026-07-30 07:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hrq-jxxx-hj3h · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-21979?
CVE-2025-21979 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 1, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy A wiphy_work can be queued from the moment the wiphy is allocated and initialized (i.e. wiphynewnm). When a wiphy_work is queued, the rdev::wiphy_work is getting queued. If…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-21979 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-21979 was published on April 1, 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 August 5, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-21979 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-21979 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-2025-21979?
CVE-2025-21979 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-21979?
A fix for CVE-2025-21979 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-21979 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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