CVE-2025-39717CWE-416

CVE-2025-39717

High · published September 5, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE

As described in commit 7a54947e727b ('Merge patch series "fs: allow

changing idmappings"'), open_tree_attr(2) was necessary in order to

allow for a detached mount to be created and have its idmappings changed

without the risk of any racing threads operating on it. For this reason,

mount_setattr(2) still does not allow for id-mappings to be changed.

However, there was a bug in commit 2462651ffa76 ("fs: allow changing

idmappings") which allowed users to bypass this restriction by calling

open_tree_attr(2) *without* OPEN_TREE_CLONE.

can_idmap_mount() prevented this bug from allowing an attached

mountpoint's id-mapping from being modified (thanks to an is_anon_ns()

check), but this still allows for detached (but visible) mounts to have

their be id-mapping changed. This risks the same UAF and locking issues

as described in the merge commit, and was likely unintentional.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00155 · 4.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2025-09-05T22:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.15, < 6.16.46.16.4
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 17:21Z
    open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE
    cvelistv5