CVE-2025-38535

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 41/100
Published: 2025-08-16 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: tegra: xusb: Fix unbalanced regulator disable in UTMI PHY mode When transitioning from USB_ROLE_DEVICE to USB_ROLE_NONE, the code assumed that the regulator should be disabled. However, if the regulator is marked as always-on, regulator_is_enabled() continues to return true, leading to an incorrect attempt to disable a regulator which is not enabled. This can result in warnings such as: [ 250.155624] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7326 at drivers/regulator/core.c:3004 _regulator_disable+0xe4/0x1a0 [ 250.155652] unbalanced disables for VIN_SYS_5V0 To fix this, we move the regulator control logic into tegra186_xusb_padctl_id_override() function since it's directly related to the ID override state. The regulator is now only disabled when the role transitions from USB_ROLE_HOST to USB_ROLE_NONE, by checking the VBUS_ID register. This ensures that regulator enable/disable operations are properly balanced and only occur when actually transitioning to/from host mode.

Affected Software (16)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < ceb645ac6ce052609ee5c8f819a80e8881789b04
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < cdcb0ffd6448f6be898956913a42bd08e59fb2ae
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < 1bb85b5c2bd43b687c3d54eb6328917f90dd38fc
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < 5367cdeb75cb6c687ca468450bceb2602ab239d8
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < ec7f98ff05f0649af0adeb4808c7ba23d6111ef9
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < eaa420339658615d26c1cc95cd6cf720b9aebfca
Linux Linux 49d46e3c7e597e8b00c6fc16e6fd7a92044f4371 < cefc1caee9dd06c69e2d807edc5949b329f52b22
Linux Linux 5.7
debian debian_linux 11.0
linux linux_kernel 5.7 – 5.10.241
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

41 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.18%
Raw Score 0.001850
Percentile 8.1%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00185
2026-11-05
0.00174

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →