Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38296)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-38296). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.15.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: platform_profile: Avoid initializing on non-ACPI platforms

The platform profile driver is loaded even on platforms that do not have
ACPI enabled. The initialization of the sysfs entries was recently moved
from platform_profile_register() to the module init call, and those
entries need acpi_kobj to be initialized which is not the case when ACPI
is disabled.

This results in the following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:131 internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8
Modules linked in:
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.15.0-rc7-dirty #6 PREEMPT
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
epc : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8
ra : internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8

Call Trace:

internal_create_group+0xa22/0xdd8
sysfs_create_group+0x22/0x2e
platform_profile_init+0x74/0xb2
do_one_initcall+0x198/0xa9e
kernel_init_freeable+0x6d8/0x780
kernel_init+0x28/0x24c
ret_from_fork+0xe/0x18

Fix this by checking if ACPI is enabled before trying to create sysfs
entries.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-38296 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.15.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-38296" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-38296 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.15.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.15.3.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.15.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.15.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.14.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38296 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38296 linux-hwe-edge