CVE-2025-38560

Guest memory corruption via missing cache eviction

Published Aug 19, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026

Cache-coherency failure in Linux 5.19 and affected later branches allows attackers to corrupt private SEV-SNP guest memory. The page-validation path marks memory private without touching each 4K page's first and last bytes, allowing stale cache lines to overwrite validated data. Exploitation requires a malicious or compromised co-resident hypervisor and an AMD SEV-SNP guest whose COHERENCY_SFW_NO bit is unset.

CVSS severity9.3
Critical
EPSS probability0.17%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Cache-coherency failure in Linux 5.19 and affected later branches allows attackers to corrupt private SEV-SNP guest memory. The page-validation path marks memory private without touching each 4K page's first and last bytes, allowing stale cache lines to overwrite validated data. Exploitation requires a malicious or compromised co-resident hypervisor and an AMD SEV-SNP guest whose COHERENCY_SFW_NO bit is unset.

The record

CVE
CVE-2025-38560
Published
Aug 19, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Vendor
The Linux Kernel Organization
Product
Linux
Classifications
T1068
Attack vector
local
Privileges
unauthenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Aug 19, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <1fb873971e23c35c53823c62809a474a92bc3022
  2. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <1fec416c03d0a64cc21aa04ce4aa14254b017e6a
  3. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <7b306dfa326f70114312b320d083b21fa9481e1e
  4. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <a762a4c8d9e768b538b3cc60615361a8cf377de8
  5. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <aed15fc08f15dbb15822b2a0b653f67e76aa0fdf
  6. Affected versionversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <f92af52e6dbd8d066d77beba451e0230482dc45b
  7. Affected versionversion=5.19

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectorlocal
Required privilegesunauthenticated

What is affected?

The Linux Kernel Organization · Linuxversion=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <1fb873971e23c35c53823c62809a474a92bc3022; version=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <1fec416c03d0a64cc21aa04ce4aa14254b017e6a; version=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <7b306dfa326f70114312b320d083b21fa9481e1e; version=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <a762a4c8d9e768b538b3cc60615361a8cf377de8; version=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <aed15fc08f15dbb15822b2a0b653f67e76aa0fdf; version=4f9c403e44e5e88feb27d5e617d1adc9cc7ef684 <f92af52e6dbd8d066d77beba451e0230482dc45b; version=5.19

Published CVSS scores

5.5NIST NVDCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
9.3Linux kernel CNACVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Attacks

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Sep 9, 2026Sep 15, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 15, 2026
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Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectorlocal
Privilegesunauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

Weakness, pattern, technique

T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

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