CVE-2025-21479
HIGHCVE-2025-21479 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.6) CWE-863 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-06-03) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU micronode while executing specific sequence of commands.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-06-03. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-06-24.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-21479.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-21479 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU micronode while executing specific sequence of commands.
Affected Products
aqt1000 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6200 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6700 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6800 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 6900 firmwarequalcommfastconnect 7800 firmwarequalcommResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
zhuowei/cheese
CVE-2025-21479 proof-of-concept, I think
sarabpal-dev/cheese-cake
A proof-of-concept for CVE-2025-21479, chained with a Dirty Pagetable te
ma4the/omae-wa-cheese-da
CVE-2025-21479 PoC for ZFlip5 with Knox in the way!(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)
linux-tools/vivo_iqoo_neo_9_root_research_on_CVE-2025-21479
CamsShaft/SELinux-Permissive-Only-CVE-2025-21479
This is an SELinux permissive version of the Cheese exploit also known a
Qingizi7/cve-2025-21479_iqooneo8
Local root exploit for CVE-2025-21479 (Adreno KGSL) on iQOO Neo8 (SM8475
reaizuguo/vivo_iqoo_neo_9_root_research_on_CVE-2025-21479
iQOO Neo9 (PD2338C) 免解锁 Caps-Root 工具** — 基于 CVE-2025-21479 (Adreno GPU S
RamenFast/zenfone9-root
Temporary root (uid 0) on a bootloader-locked ASUS Zenfone 9 via CVE-202
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2025-21479 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.
Frequently Asked Questions
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