CVE-2025-21424
Use After Free in NPU
Severity Score
7.8
*CVSS v3.1
Exploit Likelihood
< 1%
*EPSS
Affected Versions
17
*CPE
Public Exploits
1
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*KEV
Decision
Track*
*SSVC
Descriptions
Memory corruption while calling the NPU driver APIs concurrently.
msm_npu has a race condition between npu_host_unload_network and npu_host_exec_network_v2 that leads to memory corruption.
*Credits:
N/A
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* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:Track*
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2024-12-18 CVE Reserved
- 2025-03-03 CVE Published
- 2025-03-05 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-21 First Exploit
- 2025-04-04 EPSS Updated
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CWE
- CWE-416: Use After Free
CAPEC
References (2)
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