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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68380" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:33:08.266Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:52:05.766Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" 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-2025-68380" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68380.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68380" title: "wifi: ath11k: fix peer HE MCS assignment" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath11k: fix peer HE MCS assignment\n\nIn ath11k_wmi_send_peer_assoc_cmd(), peer's transmit MCS is sent to\nfirmware as receive MCS while peer's receive MCS sent as transmit MCS,\nwhich goes against firmwire's definition.\n\nWhile connecting to a misbehaved AP that advertises 0xffff (meaning not\nsupported) for 160 MHz transmit MCS map, firmware crashes due to 0xffff\nis assigned to he_mcs-\u003erx_mcs_set field.\n\n\tExt Tag: HE Capabilities\n\t [...]\n\t Supported HE-MCS and NSS Set\n\t\t[...]\n\t Rx and Tx MCS Maps 160 MHz\n\t\t [...]\n\t Tx HE-MCS Map 160 MHz: 0xffff\n\nSwap the assignment to fix this issue.\n\nAs the HE rate control mask is meant to limit our own transmit MCS, it\nneeds to go via he_mcs-\u003erx_mcs_set field. With the aforementioned swapping\ndone, change is needed as well to apply it to the peer's receive MCS.\n\nTested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.41\nTested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"92791290e4f6a1de25d35af792ab8918a70737f6"},{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4304bd7a334e981f189b9973056a58f84cc2b482"},{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"097c870b91817779e5a312c6539099a884b1fe2b"},{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"381096a417b7019896e93e86f4c585c592bf98e2"},{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b1a0da75932353f66e710976ca85a7131f647ff"},{"version":"61fe43e7216df6e9a912d831aafc7142fa20f280","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a013ca2d490c73c40588d62712ffaa432046a04"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.63","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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