CVE-2025-40195 | mount: handle NULL values in mnt_ns_release()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mount: handle NULL values in mnt_ns_release() When calling in listmount() mnt_ns_release() may be passed a NULL pointer. Handle that case gracefully.

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

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40195 is rated Low Risk (2.9/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). 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-2025-40195

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-13 0.02%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40195

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40195

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40195

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-40195 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40195
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40195
suse medium CVE-2025-40195 severity moderate: SUSE including 110 source package names (13.2-9.1:libsqlite3-0-3.49.1-1.1, 2.1.3-6.31:libsqlite3-0-3.49.1-1.1, …), 459 product×package rows across 78 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (78 product lines)): Known Not Affected 269, Fixed 165, First Fixed 25. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40195/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40195 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 181, needed 113, released 98, not-affected 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40195

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40195

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-40195

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