CVE-2025-12801mediumCWE-279

Nfs-utils: rpc.mountd in the nfs-utils privilege escalation

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.5%

exploitation probability

0.5%top 61% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Red Hat · Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19

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