CVE-2025-37997: exploitation status and patch state

CVE-2025-37997 · CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM · EPSS <1%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix region locking in hash types Region locking introduced in v5.6-rc4 contained three macros to handle the region locks: ahash_bucket_start(), ahash_bucket_end() which gave back the start and end hash bucket values belonging to a given region lock and ahash_region() which should give back the region lock belonging to a given hash bucket. The latter was incorrect which can lead to a race condition between the garbage collector and adding new elements when a hash type of set is defined with timeouts.

Is CVE-2025-37997 exploited?

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KEV and EPSS are re-checked daily. Record last updated 2026-08-15.