CVE-2025-46158

FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-46158 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the redoxOS kernel, specifically affecting versions prior to commit 5d41cd7c. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by leveraging the setitimer syscall, leading to a system crash. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.2, this vulnerability requires local access but is straightforward to execute, resulting in high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:redox-os:redox:0.8.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.5

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.19%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

8.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

github.com / Marsman1996/pocs/tree/master/redox/CVE-2025-46158

PatchThird Party Advisory

gitlab.redox-os.org / redox-os/kernel/-/issues/164

ExploitIssue Tracking

gitlab.redox-os.org / redox-os/kernel/-/merge_requests/386

Issue Tracking