CVE-2025-38499 Information

Aug 12, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns

What we want is to verify there is that clone won’t expose something hidden by a mount we wouldn’t be able to undo. \Wouldn’t be able to undo\nmay be a result of MNT_LOCKED on a child but it may also come from lacking admin rights in the userns of the namespace mount belongs to.

clone_private_mnt() checks the former but not the latter.

There’s a number of rather confusing CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks in various userns during the mount especially with the new mount API; they serve different purposes and in case of clone_private_mnt() they usually but not always end up covering the missing check mentioned above.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38628ae06e2a37770cd794802a3f1310cf9846e3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c28f922c9dcee0e4876a2c095939d77fe7e15116 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d717325b5ecf2a40daca85c61923e17f32306179 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc6a664089f10eab0fb36b6e4f705022210191d2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e77078e52fbf018ab986efb3c79065ab35025607

CNNVD-202508-936 (Published: 2025-08-11)

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