CVE 8.2 HIGH

Userspace privilege escalation vulnerability on Cortex M_CVE-2025-9408

8.2 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

System call entry on Cortex M (and possibly R and A, but I think not) has a race which allows very practical privilege escalation for malicious userspace processes.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-9408
Source zephyr
Published Nov 11, 2025 at 15:34

Affected Product

Vendor zephyrproject-rtos
Product Zephyr
Version *
Affected Versions zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr *

CWE Classification

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