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CVE-2025-6693

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in RT-Thread up to 5.1.0.

HIGH 8.5EPSS 0.25%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in RT-Thread up to 5.1.0. This affects the function sys_device_open/sys_device_read/sys_device_control/sys_device_init/sys_device_close/sys_device_write of the file components/drivers/core/device.c. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CVSS 4.0
8.5 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.25% probability · 16th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
rt-thread/rt-thread
Source
cna@vuldb.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.