CVE-2025-36920
Local privilege escalation in ARM64 KVM hypervisor via out-of-bounds write.
Is CVE-2025-36920 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2025-36920 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.09% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2025-36920?
CVE-2025-36920 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.4. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-36920?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-36920. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What should I do about CVE-2025-36920?
Apply ARM64/KVM updates when released
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Local privilege escalation to kernel/root on affected ARM64 hosts with no user interaction.
Patch when possible
- affectedAndroid kernel
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.