CVE•Published 2026-08-24•Modified 2026-08-31•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2025-36940

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

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

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 88% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416Use After Free

Description

Use-After-Free vulnerability in a zircon kernel pager proxy (Fuchsia), which could lead to a Privilege Escalation from Userspace to Kernel (AP)

Timeline

Published 2026-08-24

Modified 2026-08-31

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2025-36940

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2025-36940

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-36940

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

grep.app

CVE-2025-36940

Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.

GitHub code

CVE-2025-36940

GitHub code search for direct mentions.

Google dork

"CVE-2025-36940" exploit -site:nvd.nist.gov

Write-ups and news, NVD excluded.

Known PoCs on GitHub

No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2025-36940 on GitHub.