CVE-2025-38692

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-09-04 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: add cluster chain loop check for dir An infinite loop may occur if the following conditions occur due to file system corruption. (1) Condition for exfat_count_dir_entries() to loop infinitely. - The cluster chain includes a loop. - There is no UNUSED entry in the cluster chain. (2) Condition for exfat_create_upcase_table() to loop infinitely. - The cluster chain of the root directory includes a loop. - There are no UNUSED entry and up-case table entry in the cluster chain of the root directory. (3) Condition for exfat_load_bitmap() to loop infinitely. - The cluster chain of the root directory includes a loop. - There are no UNUSED entry and bitmap entry in the cluster chain of the root directory. (4) Condition for exfat_find_dir_entry() to loop infinitely. - The cluster chain includes a loop. - The unused directory entries were exhausted by some operation. (5) Condition for exfat_check_dir_empty() to loop infinitely. - The cluster chain includes a loop. - The unused directory entries were exhausted by some operation. - All files and sub-directories under the directory are deleted. This commit adds checks to break the above infinite loop.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (8)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < 1715f0996f7baf817c73613aeda500c4f73a6bd6
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < 868f23286c1a13162330fa6c614fe350f78e3f82
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < aa8fe7b7b73d4c9a41bb96cb3fb3092f794ecb33
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < e2066ca3ef49a30920d8536fa366b2a183a808ee
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < 4c3cda20c4cf1871e27868d08fda06b79bc7d568
Linux Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 < 99f9a97dce39ad413c39b92c90393bbd6778f3fd
Linux Linux 5.7
linux linux_kernel 5.7 – 6.6.103

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.16%
Raw Score 0.001600
Percentile 5.1%
Date 2026-11-01

EPSS Trend

2026-11-01
0.00160
2026-10-31
0.00160
2026-10-30
0.00159
2026-10-29
0.00159

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →