CVE-2025-25177VulnerabilityPublished 22 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-25177: Imagination Technologies Graphics DDK · CWE – CWE-416: Use After Free (4.17)

Affects Imagination Technologies Graphics DDKSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.1 Medium.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.1Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 3% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Local: The vulnerable component is not bound to the network stack and the attacker’s path is via read/write/execute capabilities. Either: the attacker exploits the vulnerability by accessing the target system locally (e.g., keyboard, console), or remotely (e.g., SSH); or the attacker relies on User Interaction by another person to perform actions required to exploit the vulnerability (e.g., tricking a legitimate user into opening a malicious document).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 22 Sep 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Imagination Technologies Graphics DDK	Affected =24.1	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Monitor for and apply patches promptly once Imagination Technologies releases updates addressing CVE-2025-25177. 2. Restrict local user access to systems running the affected Graphics DDK to trusted personnel only, minimizing the risk of exploitation by untrusted users. 3. Employ strict application whitelisting and sandboxing to prevent untrusted or malicious software from issuing unauthorized GPU system calls. 4. Implement kernel-level integrity monitoring to detect anomalous behavior or crashes related to GPU driver operations. 5. Conduct regular security audits of embedded and specialized hardware environments to identify the presence of vulnerable Imagination Technologies GPUs and assess exposure. 6. Use endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools capable of monitoring GPU driver interactions and alerting on suspicious use-after-free or memory corruption events. 7. For organizations developing products with these GPUs, incorporate secure coding and rigorous testing around GPU system call handling to mitigate similar vulnerabilities in future releases.

Description

Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to trigger use-after-free kernel exceptions.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2025-25177 depends largely on the deployment of Imagination Technologies GPUs and their associated Graphics DDK in their infrastructure. Organizations using embedded systems, IoT devices, or specialized hardware with these GPUs could face risks of kernel instability or minor data corruption if exploited. While the vulnerability does not directly enable privilege escalation or widespread denial of service, it could be leveraged as part of a multi-stage attack chain to undermine system integrity or facilitate further exploitation. Sectors such as telecommunications, automotive, industrial control systems, and consumer electronics manufacturers in Europe that integrate these GPUs into their products or infrastructure may be particularly affected. The limited attack vector (local, non-privileged user) reduces the risk for large-scale remote exploitation but does not eliminate insider threats or attacks via compromised local accounts. Given the absence of known exploits, the immediate risk is moderate, but organizations should remain vigilant, especially those with critical embedded systems relying on this technology.

CWE-416Use After Free (opens in a new tab)
Variant weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #7
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Architecture and Design · Language Selection
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

imaginationtech.com/gpu-driver-vulnerabilities/ (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 22 Sep 2025, 14:16 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-416

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