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CVE-2025-21660ksmbd: fix unexpectedly changed path in ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix unexpectedly changed path in ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked When `ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_locked` met an error and it is not the last entry, it will exit without restoring changed path buffer. But later this buffer may be used as the filename for creation.
Timeline
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By Linux
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected d1b2d2a9c912fc7b788985fbaf944e80f4b3f2af – < 13e41c58c74baa71f34c0830eaa3c29d53a6e964
- affected 6ab95e27b77730de3fa2d601db3764490c5eede2 – < 65b31b9d992c0fb0685c51a0cf09993832734fc4
- affected c5a709f08d40b1a082e44ffcde1aea4d2822ddd5 – < 51669f4af5f7959565b48e55691ba92fabf5c587
- affected c5a709f08d40b1a082e44ffcde1aea4d2822ddd5 – < 2ac538e40278a2c0c051cca81bcaafc547d61372
- affected d205cb1a13b37b2660df70a972dedc8c4ba1c2e8
- affected c1e27b70e79050530c671b9dab688386c86f039a
- affected 6.1.113 – < 6.1.125
- affected 6.6.54 – < 6.6.72
- affected 6.10.13 – < 6.11
- affected 6.11.2 – < 6.12
- affected 6.12
- unaffected < 6.12
- unaffected 6.1.125 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.72 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.10 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.13 – ≤ *
References
References5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13e41c58c74baa71f34c0830eaa3c29d53a6e964 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b31b9d992c0fb0685c51a0cf09993832734fc4 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51669f4af5f7959565b48e55691ba92fabf5c587 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac538e40278a2c0c051cca81bcaafc547d61372 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-2609 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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