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CVE-2025-38599wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible OOB access in mt7996_tx()
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible OOB access in mt7996_tx() Fis possible Out-Of-Boundary access in mt7996_tx routine if link_id is set to IEEE80211_LINK_UNSPECIFIED
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
- affected 3ce8acb86b6614b9f7af794f119f9627efe6b302 – < f82eabd0ff8067d1ee95515f4174c9a9569d54cb
- affected 3ce8acb86b6614b9f7af794f119f9627efe6b302 – < f43e7d8ae4b6a73213032545552bab26f76f113a
- affected 3ce8acb86b6614b9f7af794f119f9627efe6b302 – < 64cbf0d7ce9afe20666da90ec6ecaec6ba5ac64b
- affected 6.15
- unaffected < 6.15
- unaffected 6.15.10 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16.1 – ≤ 6.16.*
- unaffected 6.17 – ≤ *
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-27928 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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