CVE-2025-40342 | nvme-fc: use lock accessing port_state and rport state

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-fc: use lock accessing port_state and rport state nvme_fc_unregister_remote removes the remote port on a lport object at any point in time when there is no active association. This races with with the reconnect logic, because nvme_fc_create_association is not taking a lock to check the port_state and atomically increase the active count on the rport.

Published: 2025-12-09 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40342 is rated Low Risk (19.3/100): 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-2025-40342

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 2026-01-18 0.02% 0.06% +0.04%
2 2025-12-09 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40342

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40342

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40342

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-40342 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-2025-40342
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40342
suse medium CVE-2025-40342 severity moderate: SUSE including 475 source package names (13.2-9.1:libsystemd0-254.23-1.1, 13.2-9.1:libudev1-254.23-1.1, …), 954 product×package rows across 167 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (167 product lines)): Fixed 676, Known Affected 231, First Fixed 32, Known Not Affected 15. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40342/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40342 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 182, released 157, needed 50, not-affected 3, pending 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40342

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40342

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-40342

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