CVE-2025-38498
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-07-30 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
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).
See more information about CVE-2025-38498 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.3 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Changed |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | Low |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel) | ELSA-2025-15782 | 2025-09-18 |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20553 | 2025-09-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2025-16372 | 2025-09-22 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20553 | 2025-09-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel) | ELSA-2025-16398 | 2025-09-23 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20551 | 2025-09-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20552 | 2025-09-08 |
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