PCIe IDE Tag Aliasing Enables Cross-Context Completion Leak
CVE-2025-9613 Published on December 9, 2025
CVE-2025-9613
A vulnerability was discovered in the PCI Express (PCIe) Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) specification, where insufficient guidance on tag reuse after completion timeouts may allow multiple outstanding Non-Posted Requests to share the same tag. This tag aliasing condition can result in completions being delivered to the wrong security context, potentially compromising data integrity and confidentiality.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-9613 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Affected Versions
PCI-SIG PCI Express Integrity and Data Encryption (PCIe IDE) Specification:- Before 7.1-Rev7.0 is affected.
- Before 6.5-Rev7.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.