{"id":"CVE-2025-38726","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38726","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:10:51.446Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ftgmac100: fix potential NULL pointer access in ftgmac100_phy_disconnect After the call to phy_disconnect() netdev->phydev is reset to NULL.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ftgmac100: fix potential NULL pointer access in ftgmac100_phy_disconnect\n\nAfter the call to phy_disconnect() netdev->phydev is reset to NULL.\nSo fixed_phy_unregister() would be called with a NULL pointer as argument.\nTherefore cache the phy_device before this call.","published":"2025-09-04T16:15:43.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","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":0.00148,"percentile":0.03966,"date":"2026-10-26","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 (0.15%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44bcd397ad9cd1a6b25fabb7f5edbee4fb0cfc2e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad90dd34b4e8e5be1e45a4559f4de0f14e53af2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae59ec969c07c73f0610f8bd7e648f01e798d222","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e88fbc30dda1cb7438515303704ceddb3ade4ecd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38726","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."}