CVE-2025-38498

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38498DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38498
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 132
Modified
Published: 30 Jul 2025, 06:03
Last modified:05 Aug 2026, 12:02

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.17% LOW
0% probability +0.15%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

30 Jul 2025, 06:03
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2026, 12:02
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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).

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0MEDIUMScore: 4.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.1MEDIUMScore: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.17% Percentile: 7%

Affected Systems

  • debianlinux

    < 5.10.244-1 | < 6.1.147-1 | < 6.12.35-1 | < 6.12.35-1

  • debianlinux-6.1

    < 6.1.153-1~deb11u1

  • ubuntulinux

    all | < 5.15.0-156.166 | all

  • ubuntulinux-allwinner-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws

    all | < 5.15.0-1092.99 | all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.0

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1092.99~20.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.14

    < 6.14.0-1013.13~24.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-aws-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-1092.99+fips1

  • ubuntulinux-aws-hwe

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure

    all | all | < 5.15.0-1096.105 | all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-4.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1096.105~20.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.3

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.4

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-5.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.5

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-edge

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde

    all | all | all | all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.17

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.2

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-6.8

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-1096.105+fips1

  • ubuntulinux-azure-nvidia

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-nvidia-6.14

    < 6.14.0-1007.7

  • ubuntulinux-bluefield

    all | < 5.15.0-1076.78 | all

  • ubuntulinux-fips

    all | < 5.15.0-156.166+fips1

  • ubuntulinux-gcp

    all | all | < 5.15.0-1092.101 | all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-4.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.13

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.15

    < 5.15.0-1092.101~20.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.19

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-5.3

    all

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References (33)