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🛡️ CVE-2025-12801 — enterprise-linux

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-279 NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability was recently discovered in the rpc.mountd daemon in the nfs-utils package for Linux, that allows a NFSv3 client to escalate the

privileges assigned to it in the /etc/exports file at mount time. In particular, it allows the client to access any subdirectory or subtree of an exported directory, regardless of the set file permissions, and regardless of any 'root_squash' or 'all_squash' attributes that would normally be expected to apply to that client.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-12801 is classified as CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions. While it is executing, the product sets the permissions of an object in a way that violates the intended permissions that have been specified by the user.

Affected software

CVE-2025-12801 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • nfs-utils
  • openshift-container-platform

Timeline and source

Published on 4 March 2026 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

enterprise-linux has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions) in other software:

CVE-2025-12801 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-279
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
nfs-utils
openshift-container-platform

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