{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38498 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38498 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38498 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38498 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38498 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38498/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38498/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38498","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38498/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38498","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38498","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38498","GHSA-5q28-72v3-hrw6","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38498","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38498","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38498","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38498","SUSE-SU-2025:03379-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03416-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38498"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker could modify propagation settings on mounts outside their namespace, potentially leading to privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndo_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts\n\nEnsure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located\nin the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns permission checking\nwith the rest of mount(2).","ecosystems":["SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5","SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP3"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts","id":"CVE-2025-38498","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2025"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns","id":"CVE-2025-38499"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5","fixed":["2-2.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_71","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_71\u0026distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2012%20SP5","source":"SUSE-SU-2025:03379-1"},{"ecosystem":"SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP3","fixed":["2-150300.2.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_60","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP3_Update_60\u0026distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2015%20SP3","source":"SUSE-SU-2025:03416-1"}],"prev":{"headline":"usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write","id":"CVE-2025-38497"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-30","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"SUSE","prefix":"SUSE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker could modify propagation settings on mounts outside their namespace, potentially leading to privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38498/"}