Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2025
CVE-2025-55078
Incomplete validation of kernel object pointers in system calls
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Eclipse ThreadX before version 6.4.3, an attacker can cause a denial of service (crash) by providing a pointer to a reserved or unmapped memory region. Vulnerable system calls had a check of pointers, but that check wasn't verifying whether the pointer is outside the module memory region.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 7% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TH
ThreadX · Eclipse Foundation
through 6.4.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55078
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55078
Exploit
https://github.com/eclipse-threadx/threadx/security/advisories/GHSA-wcfg-5jpf-hhxq
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