CVE-2025-71161

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-01-23. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction

There are two problems with the recursive correction:

  • It may cause denial-of-service. In fec_read_bufs, there is a loop that
has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call verity_hash_for_block recursively. There is a limit of 4 nested recursions - that means that there may be at most 253^4 (4 billion) iterations. Red Hat QE team actually created an image that pushes dm-verity to this limit - and this image just makes the udev-worker process get stuck in the 'D' state.
  • It doesn't work. In fec_read_bufs we store data into the variable
"fio->bufs", but fio bufs is shared between recursive invocations, if "verity_hash_for_block" invoked correction recursively, it would overwrite partially filled fio->bufs.

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
6.1%
KEV
Not listed

Published

January 23, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Jul 16, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

SSA-082556

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
generic

SSA-019113

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

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e227d2b229c7529bd98d348efc55262ccf24ab35
generic

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9f3e47d3fae0c101d9094bc956ed24e7a0ee801
generic

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b821ca892cfeeaf0bedc9fc72717294f67144d5
generic

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/897d9006e75f46f8bd7df78faa424327ae6a4bcf
generic

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4220cb37406915c926c0e4a3dbab77cd9cceeb1e
generic

dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/232948cf600fba69aff36b25d85ef91a73a35756

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-71161(2)

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

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
linuxKernel @ 5.15.209—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.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-23 03:03 UTCEG score recompute
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  17. 2026-07-14 13:19 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-71161?
CVE-2025-71161 is a medium vulnerability published on January 23, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction There are two problems with the recursive correction: 1. It may cause denial-of-service. In fecreadbufs, there is a loop that has 253 iterations. For each iteration, we may call…
When was CVE-2025-71161 disclosed?
CVE-2025-71161 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on January 23, 2026, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-71161 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-71161 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 6.1% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-71161?
CVE-2025-71161 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-71161?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-71161, 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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