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CVE-2025-40210

7.5 · HIGH
Published Nov 21, 2025 EPSS 0.33% (26th pctl)

Overview

CVE-2025-40210 is a high-severity vulnerability. It was published on November 21, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5, rated HIGH. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert "NFSD: Remove the cap on number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND"

I've found that pynfs COMP6 now leaves the connection or lease in a

strange state, which causes CLOSE9 to hang indefinitely. I've dug

into it a little, but I haven't been able to root-cause it yet.

However, I bisected to commit 48aab1606fa8 ("NFSD: Remove the cap on

number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND").

Tianshuo Han also reports a potential vulnerability when decoding

an NFSv4 COMPOUND. An attacker can place an arbitrarily large op

count in the COMPOUND header, which results in:

[ 51.410584] nfsd: vmalloc error: size 1209533382144, exceeds total

pages, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO),

nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0

when NFSD attempts to allocate the COMPOUND op array.

Let's restore the operation-per-COMPOUND limit, but increased to 200

for now.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2025-40210?

CVE-2025-40210 is a high-severity vulnerability. It was published on November 21, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

How severe is CVE-2025-40210?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5, rated HIGH. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2025-40210?

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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