Vulnerability in NVIDIA Mellanox Dpdk 20.11

CVE-2025-23259

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.0th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 20.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-23259: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Mellanox Dpdk 20.11 — versions All versions prior to 20.11_7.8.0 LTS
  • NVIDIA Mellanox Dpdk 22.11 — versions All versions prior to 22.11_2504.1.0, All versions prior to 22.11_2410 LTS, All versions prior to 22.11_2310 LTS
  • NVIDIA Upstream Dpdk — versions All versions prior to 25.07, All versions prior to 24.11.3 LTS, All versions prior to 23.11.5 LTS

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23259?
CVE-2025-23259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Mellanox Dpdk 20.11, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-09-04.
How severe is CVE-2025-23259?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.