# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21838"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-07T09:09:57.515Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:40.971Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21838"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21838.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21838"
title: "usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal\n\ndevice_del() can lead to new work being scheduled in gadget-\u003ework\nworkqueue. This is observed, for example, with the dwc3 driver with the\nfollowing call stack:\n  device_del()\n    gadget_unbind_driver()\n      usb_gadget_disconnect_locked()\n        dwc3_gadget_pullup()\n\t  dwc3_gadget_soft_disconnect()\n\t    usb_gadget_set_state()\n\t      schedule_work(&gadget-\u003ework)\n\nMove flush_work() after device_del() to ensure the workqueue is cleaned\nup."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3bc1a9a67ce33a2e761e6e7b7c2afc6cb9b7266"},{"version":"5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"859cb45aefa6de823b2fa7f229fe6d9562c9f3b7"},{"version":"5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f894448f3904d7ad66fecef8f01fe0172629e091"},{"version":"5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97695b5a1b5467a4f91194db12160f56da445dfe"},{"version":"5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"399a45e5237ca14037120b1b895bd38a3b4492ea"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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