{"id":"CVE-2025-21773","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-21773","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T13:14:23.549Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: etas_es58x: fix potential NULL pointer dereference on udev->serial The driver assumed that es58x_dev->udev->serial could never be NULL.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: etas_es58x: fix potential NULL pointer dereference on udev->serial\n\nThe driver assumed that es58x_dev->udev->serial could never be NULL.\nWhile this is true on commercially available devices, an attacker\ncould spoof the device identity providing a NULL USB serial number.\nThat would trigger a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nAdd a check on es58x_dev->udev->serial before accessing it.","published":"2025-02-27T03:15:18.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:44:15.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00221,"percentile":0.1255,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1590667a60753ee5a54871f2840ceefd4a7831fa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5059ea98d7bc133903d3e47ab36df6ed11d0c95f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/722e8e1219c8b6ac2865011fe339315d6a8d0721","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1ad2109ce41c9e3912dadd07ad8a9c640064ffb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21773","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}