OBS-2025-000029: CVE-2025-39682

1. Observe What changed? →

2. Understand Why does it matter? →

3. Track How does risk evolve? →

4. Predict What happens next? →

5. Decide What to do? →

6. Verify What happened? →

7. Remember Persistent memory

IMMUTABLE CANONICAL OBSERVATION

OBS-2025-000029

Target Entity: CVE-2025-39682 — Linux Kernel kTLS Receive Path Zero-Length Record Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation

MODE: RETROSPECTIVE

Methodology: HTS-3.1

Observed UTC:
2025-08-20T00:00:00.000Z

Event Date:
2025-08-20

Epistemic State:
● KNOWN

Cryptographic Digest:
sha256-a9d1cc3d4321419…

1. Verified Evidence & Observed State

This canonical observation confirms the following factual event on the threat surface:

Hermes Threat Score (HTS)

65 / 100

CRITICAL

CVSS v3.1

7.8

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

EPSS (30-Day Exploitation)

65.1%

Percentile: 96.2th

Weaponization & CISA KEV

🚨 Listed in CISA KEV

Exploit Maturity: weaponized

2. Decomposed Epistemic Confidence Vector

Hermes rejects false certainty and explicitly exposes its decomposed confidence vector:

Evidence Integrity99%

Model Stability98%

Data Completeness95%

Actionable Decisiveness96%

3. Primary Sources & Provenance Chain

Observation OBS-2025-000029 is strictly anchored to verified records from the following primary entities:

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (Added 2026-09-18)
Linux Kernel Git: tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list
NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CVE-2025-39682

Causal Intelligence Lineage

Primary Source → OBS-2025-000029 → CVE-2025-39682 → Risk Trajectory → Action Directive

4. Target Entity & Correlated Intelligence

Primary Vulnerability Dossier: CVE-2025-39682
Impacted Software Product : Linux Kernel Core (linux ecosystem)
Dynamic Risk Trajectories: View risk trajectory analysis
Decision Engine: View prescriptive remediation directives

5. Observation Sequence & Chain of Custody

Chronological lineage for entity CVE-2025-39682:

Preceding Observation: None (Initial Baseline)
Succeeding Observation: OBS-2026-000251

Observation ID	Date	Mode	Score	Observed Fact
👉 `OBS-2025-000029`	`2025-08-20`	RETROSPECTIVE	65	Initial disclosure in net/tls/tls_sw.c; vendor patches issued.
`OBS-2026-000251`	`2026-09-18`	LIVE	94	CISA adds to KEV catalog with mandatory BOD 22-01 remediation deadline.
`OBS-2026-000030`	`2026-09-19`	LIVE	94	Hermes confirms weaponized exploitation across enterprise Linux fleets.

6. Reproducibility & Cryptographic Verification

(Section 77 Mandate: “Observations must be reproducible”)

Fetch and verify this observation record directly from the machine-readable API:

# 1. Fetch canonical observation record
curl -sSL https://hermes-codex.vercel.app/api/observations/OBS-2025-000029.json

# 2. Verify cryptographic SHA-256 integrity
curl -sSL https://hermes-codex.vercel.app/api/observations/OBS-2025-000029.json | sha256sum

OASIS STIX 2.1 Mapping (`observed-data`)

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