CVE-2025-40183 | bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6} Cilium has a BPF egress gateway feature which forces outgoing K8s Pod traffic to pass through dedicated egress gateways which then SNAT the traffic in order to interact with stable IPs outside the cluster. The traffic is directed to the gateway via vxlan tunnel in collect md mode. A recent BPF change utilized the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper to forward packets after the arrival and decap on vxlan, which turned out over time that the kmalloc-256 slab usage in kernel was ever-increasing. The issue was that vxlan allocates the metadata_dst object and attaches it through a fake dst entry to the skb. The latter was never released though given bpf_redirect_neigh() was merely setting the new dst entry via skb_dst_set() without dropping an existing one first.

Published: 2025-11-12 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40183 is rated Low Risk (18.2/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40183

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-22 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
2 2026-04-10 0.06% 0.04% -0.02%
3 2025-12-18 0.06%

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OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40183

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debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-40183 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40183
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40183
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40183/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40183 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 177, released 158, not-affected 49, needed 8, pending 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40183

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40183

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References for CVE-2025-40183

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