CVE-2025-39701

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 41/100
Published: 2025-09-05 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: ACPI: pfr_update: Fix the driver update version check The security-version-number check should be used rather than the runtime version check for driver updates. Otherwise, the firmware update would fail when the update binary had a lower runtime version number than the current one. [ rjw: Changelog edits ]

Affected Software (10)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 < 79300ff532bccbbf654992c7c0863b49a6c3973c
Linux Linux 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 < cf0a88124e357bffda487cbf3cb612bb97eb97e4
Linux Linux 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 < b00219888c11519ef75d988fa8a780da68ff568e
Linux Linux 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 < 908094681f645d3a78e18ef90561a97029e2df7b
Linux Linux 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 < 8151320c747efb22d30b035af989fed0d502176e
Linux Linux 5.17
debian debian_linux 11.0
linux linux_kernel 5.17 – 6.1.149
linux linux_kernel 6.17
linux linux_kernel 6.17

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

0.20%
Raw Score 0.001970
Percentile 9.5%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00197
2026-11-05
0.00197

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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