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CVE-2025-38498do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% 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: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Ensure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located in the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns permission checking with the rest of mount(2).
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| 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)
- 0.22% · top 88% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114
- affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 – < 12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fc
- affected 2.6.15
- unaffected < 2.6.15
- unaffected 5.4.295 – ≤ 5.4.*
- unaffected 5.10.239 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.186 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.142 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.94 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.34 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.3 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
References12
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fc (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.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-2025-23147 (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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