CVE-2025-37917

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-05-20. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll

Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in rx/tx poll.

BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
 lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,
    .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
    6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT
Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
 dump_stack+0x18/0x24
 spin_dump+0x78/0x88
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120
 _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c
 mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]
 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
 handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0
 handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc
 handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
 generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
 gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
 do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84
 el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)
 _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac
 _regmap_read+0x60/0xdc
 regmap_read+0x4c/0x80
 mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]
 __napi_poll+0x38/0x188
 net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0
 handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244
 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20
 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c
 irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
 el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)
 cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
 do_idle+0x1e4/0x260
 cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
 rest_init+0xdc/0xe0
 console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
 __primary_switched+0x88/0x90

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

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
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
35%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 20, 2025

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Jul 17, 2026
Patch available.
generic

SSA-019113

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html
generic Patch Available

[SECURITY] [DLA 4271-1] linux-6.1 security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d886f8d85494d12b2752fd7c6c32162d982d5dd5
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bedd287fdd3142dffad7ae2ac6ef15f4a2ad0629
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94107259f972d2fd896dbbcaa176b3b2451ff9e5
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d40bf73fa7f31eac2b0a7c9d85de67df82ee7f3
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb10f17bddc415f30fbc00a4e2b490e0d94c462
generic

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe0866014486736cc3ba1c6fd4606d3dbe55c9c

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-37917(1)

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

Patch Availability(23)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.14.0-24.24) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-6.14 (6.14.0-1007.7) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-100.100+fips1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-64k-6.14 (6.14.0-1009.9) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-64k-6.14 (6.14.0-1009.9) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-edge (6.14.0-1009.9~24.04.1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-hwe-22.04 (6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-6.14 (6.14.0-1010.10) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-6.8.1 (6.8.1-1041.42) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-6.8 (6.8.0-100.100) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1043.44) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-1047.50+fips1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-hwe-20.04-edge (6.8.0-100.100.1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp (6.8.0.1023.24) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1044.44) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1046.49.1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gke-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1043.48) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1046.52) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-1046.52+fips1) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
linuxKernel @ 6.1.138—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.

All Vendor Advisories

(22)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-37917?
CVE-2025-37917 is a medium vulnerability published on May 20, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll Use spinlockirqsave and spinunlockirqrestore instead of spin_lock and spinunlock in mtkstar_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion occurrence that can…
When was CVE-2025-37917 disclosed?
CVE-2025-37917 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 20, 2025, with the most recent update on August 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-37917 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-37917 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 65.0% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-37917?
CVE-2025-37917 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-37917?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-37917, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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