What is CVE-2025-8045?

CVE-2025-8045 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm 5th Gen Gpu Architecture Kernel Driver, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-12-01.

How severe is CVE-2025-8045?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-8045 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Use After Free in Arm 5th Gen Gpu Architecture Kernel Driver

CVE-2025-8045

Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to perform improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.This issue affects Valhall GPU Kernel Driver: from r53p0 through r54p1; Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver: from r53p0 through r54p1.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

EPSS: 0.002 (6.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Arm 5th_gen_gpu_architecture_kernel_driver
Arm Valhall_gpu_kernel_driver
Arm Ltd 5th Gen Gpu Architecture Kernel Driver — versions r53p0
Arm Ltd Valhall Gpu Kernel Driver — versions r53p0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

Public proof-of-concept exploits

kuzeyardabulut/CVE-2025-8045

References

arm-security@arm.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8045?: CVE-2025-8045 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm 5th Gen Gpu Architecture Kernel Driver, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-12-01.
How severe is CVE-2025-8045?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-8045 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.