CVE-2025-22037

HIGH
ACT NOW Priority: 5.21 BB Relevance: 85/100
Published: 2025-04-16 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash() The Client send malformed smb2 negotiate request. ksmbd return error response. Subsequently, the client can send smb2 session setup even thought conn->preauth_info is not allocated. This patch add KSMBD_SESS_NEED_SETUP status of connection to ignore session setup request if smb2 negotiate phase is not complete.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < 2d3461d6ae74ebdcd4d65128c855198649bcadcd
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < cce57cd8c5dead24127cf2308fdd60fcad2d6ba6
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < ca8bed31edf728a662ef9d6f39f50e7a7dc2b5ad
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < 8f216b33a5e1b3489c073b1ea1b3d7cb63c8dc4d
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < b8eb243e670ecf30e91524dd12f7260dac07d335
Linux Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf < c8b5b7c5da7d0c31c9b7190b4a7bba5281fc4780
Linux Linux 5.15
linux linux_kernel 6.6 – 6.6.107

Bug Bounty Relevance

85 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction
✓ High exploitation probability

CVSS Score

7.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

69.51%
Raw Score 0.695100
Percentile 99.4%
Date 2026-10-30

EPSS Trend

2026-10-30
0.69510
2026-10-29
0.69510

Intelligence Sources

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