CVE-2025-40307

exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap syzbot created an exfat image with cluster bits not set for the allocation bitmap. exfat-fs reads and uses the allocation bitmap without checking this. The problem is that if the start cluster of the allocation bitmap is 6, cluster 6 can be allocated when creating a directory with mkdir. exfat zeros out this cluster in exfat_mkdir, which can delete existing entries. This can reallocate the allocated entries. In addition, the allocation bitmap is also zeroed out, so cluster 6 can be reallocated. This patch adds exfat_test_bitmap_range to validate that clusters used for the allocation bitmap are correctly marked as in-use.

Affected

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

1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f60035.7
Vendor states this is fixed in 13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 67ce8034dc0278ddd88cad93d4218a945180dddd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 87f827d53bd0688597bda63ae95908e2ad39bac0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.58 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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