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CVE-2025-39717

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CVE-2025-39717

Published: Sep 5, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
2462651ffa76b87f9c2e4403ef6e6b89b703fb2f - < 69dbdc711d9130136824e3830191a6afffa0a1f0
affected
2462651ffa76b87f9c2e4403ef6e6b89b703fb2f - < 9308366f062129d52e0ee3f7a019f7dd41db33df

Linux

Linux

affected
6.15
unaffected
0 - < 6.15
unaffected
6.16.4 - <= 6.16.*
unaffected
6.17 - <= *

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