CVE-2025-39717

open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 5, 2025 at 05:21 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.15 ≤ v < 6.16.42462651ffa76b87f9c2e4403ef6e6b89b703fb2f6.176.17 rc16.17 rc2
Vendor states this is fixed in 69dbdc711d9130136824e3830191a6afffa0a1f0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9308366f062129d52e0ee3f7a019f7dd41db33df (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)

Remediation

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References (2)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69dbdc711d9130136824e3830191a6afffa0a1f0
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9308366f062129d52e0ee3f7a019f7dd41db33df

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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