CVE-2025-9408 (GCVE-0-2025-9408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-11 15:34
Modified
2025-11-12 20:02
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-270 - Privilege Context Switching Error
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zephyrproject-rtos | Zephyr |
Version: * |
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