Is CVE-2025-38432 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-38432 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-38432?

CVE-2025-38432 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-38432?

CVE-2025-38432 has an EPSS score of 0.14% (3th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38432?

Upgrade linux kernel to 6.15.5 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-38432

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming. udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().

How to fix

Remediation Available

linux kernelNVD

Affected:>= 6.15, < 6.15.5Fixed in:6.15.5CVE-2025-38432derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.14%probability of exploitation in 30 days

3rdpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 3% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch2

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-19.