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CVE-2025-21737

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-21737 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Ceph file system (cephfs) module. This flaw, categorized as CWE-401, occurs when a temporary path substring allocation is not properly freed during authorization checks, leading to continuous memory consumption. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.1 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high availability impact (system crash due to OOM). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.10, < 6.12.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.13, < 6.13.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: kernel

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-21737Moderate

kernel: ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()

Feb 27, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/146109fe936ac07f8f60cd6267543688985b96bc
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/2b6086c5efe5c7bd6e0eb440d96c26ca0d20d9d7
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/3b7d93db450e9d8ead80d75e2a303248f1528c35
Patch