# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40307"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:32.659Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:43.363Z"
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-2025-40307"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40307.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40307"
title: "exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap\n\nsyzbot created an exfat image with cluster bits not set for the allocation\nbitmap. exfat-fs reads and uses the allocation bitmap without checking\nthis. The problem is that if the start cluster of the allocation bitmap\nis 6, cluster 6 can be allocated when creating a directory with mkdir.\nexfat zeros out this cluster in exfat_mkdir, which can delete existing\nentries. This can reallocate the allocated entries. In addition,\nthe allocation bitmap is also zeroed out, so cluster 6 can be reallocated.\nThis patch adds exfat_test_bitmap_range to validate that clusters used for\nthe allocation bitmap are correctly marked as in-use."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87f827d53bd0688597bda63ae95908e2ad39bac0"},{"version":"1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67ce8034dc0278ddd88cad93d4218a945180dddd"},{"version":"1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90"},{"version":"1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bf"},{"version":"1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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