CVE-2025-39926

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop producing events depending on listeners. However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the syscall still returned failure to user space. Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check i.e. after permission checks have succeeded.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 3.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.9.0 - 6.12.48linux
Linux/Linux < 6.9
Linux/Linux 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - 1dbfb0363224f6da56f6655d596dc5097308d6f5
Linux/Linux 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - 8858c1e9405906c09589d7c336f04058ea198207
Linux/Linux 3de21a8990d3c2cc507e9cc4ed00f36358d5b93e - 98c9d884047a3051c203708914a874dece3cbe54
Linux/Linux 6.12.48 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.8 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.9
... and 2 more
Published Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026