CVE-2025-38498

do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jul 30, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

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).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114Affected 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fcAffected
LinuxLinux	2.6.15Affected before 2.6.15Not affected 5.4.295 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.239 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.186 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.142 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.94 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.34 through 6.12.Not affected 6.15.3 through 6.15.*Not affected 6.16 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114Affected
07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84 to before 12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fcAffected

LinuxLinux

2.6.15Affected
before 2.6.15Not affected
5.4.295 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.239 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.186 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.142 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.94 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.34 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.15.3 through 6.15.*Not affected
6.16 and laterNot affected

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