Use-After-Free in Zircon Kernel Pager Proxy Enables Priv Esc to Kernel (Fuchsia)
CVE-2025-36940 Published on August 24, 2026

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

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-36940 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

CVE-2025-36940 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-36940

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Affected Versions

Google Android Version F30.1.1 is affected by CVE-2025-36940