CVE record · CVE-2025-1272

Kernel: secure boot does not automatically enable kernel lockdown

CVSS 7.7 HighEPSS 0.0025 · 17th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: fedora) at 18 Feb 2026, 20:29 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Fedora Project	Fedora Linux Package name: kernel https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/kernel/kernel/	affected 6.12.4-100.fc40 to before 6.12.15-100.fc40 rpm affected 6.12.1-200.fc41 to before 6.12.15-200.fc41 rpm Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: rhcos https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2025-1272
CNA: fedora
Weakness (CWE): CWE-306
Tags: Fedora Project Fedora Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Authentication bypass
Published: 18 Feb 2026
Updated: 26 Feb 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.7	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (fedora)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0025, the 17th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Feb 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1272 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345615 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.