# net/mlx5e: Fix inversion dependency warning while enabling IPsec tunnel

CVE record · `CVE-2025-21674`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-21674`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.5 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-667](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/667.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-667](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-667.md)
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 31 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 31 Jan 2025, 11:25 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: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099 to before 87c4417a902151cfe4363166245a3671a08c256c` (git)
  - affected: `4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099 to before 6d3d69c070d920fbb146d73dd3899a50f25d0901` (git)
  - affected: `4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099 to before 2c3688090f8a1f085230aa839cc63e4a7b977df0` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.4`
  - unaffected: `before 6.4` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.74 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.11 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.13 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from ADP (CISA-ADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 7 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 31 Jan 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-21674](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21674)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-21674](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21674)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c4417a902151cfe4363166245a3671a08c256c>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d3d69c070d920fbb146d73dd3899a50f25d0901>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c3688090f8a1f085230aa839cc63e4a7b977df0>

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.

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