# net: phy: transfer phy_config_inband() locking responsibility to phylink

CVE record · `CVE-2025-39915`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-39915`
- **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:** 1 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 1 Oct 2025, 07:44 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: `5fd0f1a02e750e2db4038dee60edea669ce5aab1 to before 052ac41c379c8b87629808be612a482b2d0ae283` (git)
  - affected: `5fd0f1a02e750e2db4038dee60edea669ce5aab1 to before e2a10daba84968f6b5777d150985fd7d6abc9c84` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.14`
  - unaffected: `before 6.14` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.16.8 to 6.16.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.17 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:** 0.0010, the 1st 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 1 Oct 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-39915](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39915)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-39915](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39915)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/052ac41c379c8b87629808be612a482b2d0ae283>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2a10daba84968f6b5777d150985fd7d6abc9c84>

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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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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