VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2025-71094
CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-01-13
Last modified2026-10-19
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: asix: validate PHY address before use The ASIX driver reads the PHY address from the USB device via asix_read_phy_addr(). A malicious or faulty device can return an invalid address (>= PHY_MAX_ADDR), which causes a warning in mdiobus_get_phy(): addr 207 out of range WARNING: drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:76 Validate the PHY address in asix_read_phy_addr() and remove the now-redundant check in ax88172a.c.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-20