CVE-2025-38494high

CVE-2025-38494: high-severity vulnerability in Linux

HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request hid_hw_raw_request() is actually useful to ensure the provided buffer and length are valid. Directly calling in the low level transport driver function bypassed those checks and allowed invalid paramto be used.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e5017d84d650ca0eeaf4a3fe9264c5dbc886b81https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d1314d46c0d8a5c08ab53ddeb62280c77698c0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40e25aa7e4e0f2440c73a683ee448e41c7c344edhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a62a895edb2bfebffa865b5129a66e3b4287f34fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ca42f190b6714d6c481dfd3d9b62ea091c946bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d18f63e848840100dbc351a82e7042eac5a28cf5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd8e8314f2ce225dade5248dcfb9e2ac0edda624https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f10923b8d32a473b229477b63f23bbd72b1e9910https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html