CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68764

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found where automounted NFS filesystems do not inherit user-set mount flags such as 'ro', 'noexec', 'nodev', and 'sync'. This lack of inheritance can lead to security policy violations regarding read-only or execution restrictions.

Risk Assessment

The organization may face security policy breaches when automounted NFS resources ignore set flags, potentially allowing unauthorized writes or code execution on sensitive data.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 0b3a2c8e1f5e) and verify NFS automount configuration for flag inheritance.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Automounted filesystems should inherit ro,noexec,nodev,sync flags When a filesystem is being automounted, it needs to preserve the user-set superblock mount options, such as the "ro" flag.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS