🛡️ CVE-2025-46158 — redox

🟡 CVSS 6.2 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-369 NVD
6.2
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Description

An issue in redoxOS kernel before commit 5d41cd7c allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the setitimer syscall

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-46158 is classified as CWE-369: Divide By Zero. A divisor derived from input is not checked for zero, terminating or destabilising the process.

Affected software

CVE-2025-46158 is recorded against 1 package.

  • redox

Timeline and source

Published on 20 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
gitlab.redox-os.org
gitlab.redox-os.org
gitlab.redox-os.org

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-369
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
redox — —

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