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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2025-9408

Userspace privilege escalation vulnerability on Cortex M

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr

Default version status: unaffected

  • * to < 3.7.2affected
  • 4.0.0 to < 4.2.2affected

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