What is CVE-2025-71072?

CVE-2025-71072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-01-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-71072?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-71072

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: shmem: fix recovery on rename failures maple_tree insertions can fail if we are seriously short on memory; simple_offset_rename() does not recover well if it runs into t…

EPSS: 0.001 (2.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions a2e459555c5f9da3e619b7e47a63f98574dc75f1, 6.6, 0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.6, 6.19

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-71072?: CVE-2025-71072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-01-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-71072?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.