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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38499" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-11T16:01:08.257Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:17.524Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38499" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38499.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38499" title: "clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns\n\nWhat we want is to verify there is that clone won't expose something\nhidden 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\nlacking admin rights in the userns of the namespace mount belongs to.\n\nclone_private_mnt() checks the former, but not the latter.\n\nThere's a number of rather confusing CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks in various\nuserns during the mount, especially with the new mount API; they serve\ndifferent purposes and in case of clone_private_mnt() they usually,\nbut not always end up covering the missing check mentioned above." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36fecd740de2d542d2091d65d36554ee2bcf9c65"},{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d717325b5ecf2a40daca85c61923e17f32306179"},{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc6a664089f10eab0fb36b6e4f705022210191d2"},{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e77078e52fbf018ab986efb3c79065ab35025607"},{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38628ae06e2a37770cd794802a3f1310cf9846e3"},{"version":"427215d85e8d1476da1a86b8d67aceb485eb3631","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c28f922c9dcee0e4876a2c095939d77fe7e15116"},{"version":"c6e8810d25295acb40a7b69ed3962ff181919571","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e3eee87c846dc47f6d8eb6d85e7271f24122a279","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"517b875dfbf58f0c6c9e32dc90f5cf42d71a42ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"963d85d630dabe75a3cfde44a006fec3304d07b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"812f39ed5b0b7f34868736de3055c92c7c4cf459","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6a002d48a66076524f67098132538bef17e8445e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"41812f4b84484530057513478c6770590347dc30","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.4.281","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.280","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.244","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.204","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.59","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.13.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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