CVE-2025-38177

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 2025-07-04. 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 — 3 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:

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent

hfsc_qlen_notify() is not idempotent either and not friendly to its callers, like fq_codel_dequeue(). Let's make it idempotent to ease qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog() callers' life:

  • update_vf() decreases cl->cl_nactive, so we can check whether it is
non-zero before calling it.
  • eltree_remove() always removes RB node cl->el_node, but we can use
RB_EMPTY_NODE() + RB_CLEAR_NODE() to make it safe.

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.
Exploitation0.2% × 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 every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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

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
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). 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 every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 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 partial (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

July 4, 2025

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Aug 2, 2026
Patch available.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 4327-1] linux security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

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

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

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d06476714d2819b550e0cc39222347e2c8941c9d
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1175c4ad01dbc9c979d099861fa90a754f72059
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5efc95a33bd4fcb879250852828cc58c7862970
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5fd5c2f4d4afdd5e405083ee53e0789ce76956
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9030a91235ae4845ec71902c3e0cecfc9ed1f2df
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72c61ffbeeb8c50f6d4d70c65d3283aa1bac57a7
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51eb3b65544c9efd6a1026889ee5fb5aa62da3bb
Web page

sch_hfsc: make hfsc_qlen_notify() idempotent - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0475c85426b18eccdcb7f9fb58d8f8e9c6c58c87

Patch Availability(21)

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 (46 versions)
  • every version up to 5.10.244-1: fixed in 5.10.244-1
—
linux-6.16.1.106-3~deb11u1 ... 6.1.137-1~deb11u1 (8 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.140-1~deb11u1: fixed in 6.1.140-1~deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (39 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.139-1: fixed in 6.1.139-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.29-1: fixed in 6.12.29-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 6.12.29-1: fixed in 6.12.29-1
—

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 9× in last 7d / 33× 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 183 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 87 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  51. 2026-08-05 13:06 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-08-05 13:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pjq-r2xc-hgwc · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  61. 2026-07-30 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9pjq-r2xc-hgwc · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  62. 2026-07-30 06:24 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-38177?
CVE-2025-38177 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 4, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: schhfsc: make hfscqlen_notify() idempotent hfscqlennotify() is not idempotent either and not friendly to its callers, like fqcodeldequeue(). Let's make it idempotent to ease qdisctreereduce_backlog() callers' life: 1. updatevf()…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-38177 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-38177 was published on July 4, 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-2025-38177 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-38177 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-2025-38177?
CVE-2025-38177 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-38177?
A fix for CVE-2025-38177 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-38177 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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