CVE-2025-23259 (GCVE-0-2025-23259)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-04 15:52 – Updated: 2025-09-04 18:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
NVIDIA Mellanox DPDK contains a vulnerability in Poll Mode Driver (PMD), where an attacker on a VM in the system might be able to cause information disclosure and denial of service on the network interface.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-04 18:51 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
8 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Mellanox DPDK 22.11 |
Affected:
All versions prior to 22.11_2504.1.0
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Mellanox DPDK 22.11 |
Affected:
All versions prior to 22.11_2410 LTS
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Mellanox DPDK 22.11 |
Affected:
All versions prior to 22.11_2310 LTS
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Mellanox DPDK 20.11 |
Affected:
All versions prior to 20.11_7.8.0 LTS
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Upstream DPDK |
Affected:
All versions prior to 25.07
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Upstream DPDK |
Affected:
All versions prior to 24.11.3 LTS
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Upstream DPDK |
Affected:
All versions prior to 23.11.5 LTS
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Upstream DPDK |
Affected:
All versions prior to 22.11.10 LTS
|
guessed |
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