{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-68788","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-12-24T10:30:51.037Z","datePublished":"2026-01-13T15:29:01.270Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:53:22.202Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:53:22.202Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfsnotify: do not generate ACCESS/MODIFY events on child for special files\n\ninotify/fanotify do not allow users with no read access to a file to\nsubscribe to events (e.g. IN_ACCESS/IN_MODIFY), but they do allow the\nsame user to subscribe for watching events on children when the user\nhas access to the parent directory (e.g. /dev).\n\nUsers with no read access to a file but with read access to its parent\ndirectory can still stat the file and see if it was accessed/modified\nvia atime/mtime change.\n\nThe same is not true for special files (e.g. /dev/null). Users will not\ngenerally observe atime/mtime changes when other users read/write to\nspecial files, only when someone sets atime/mtime via utimensat().\n\nAlign fsnotify events with this stat behavior and do not generate\nACCESS/MODIFY events to parent watchers on read/write of special files.\nThe events are still generated to parent watchers on utimensat(). This\ncloses some side-channels that could be possibly used for information\nexfiltration [1].\n\n[1] https://snee.la/pdf/pubs/file-notification-attacks.pdf"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/notify/fsnotify.c"],"versions":[{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"df2711544b050aba703e6da418c53c7dc5d443ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"859bdf438f01d9aa7f84b09c1202d548c7cad9e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"6a7d7d96eeeab7af2bd01afbb3d9878a11a13d91","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"e0643d46759db8b84c0504a676043e5e341b6c81","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"82f7416bcbd951549e758d15fc1a96a5afc2e900","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"7a93edb23bcf07a3aaf8b598edfc2faa8fbcc0b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc","lessThan":"635bc4def026a24e071436f4f356ea08c0eed6ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/notify/fsnotify.c"],"versions":[{"version":"2.6.36","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"2.6.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.248","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.198","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.160","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.6.120","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.64","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.3","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.19","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"5.10.248"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"5.15.198"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"6.1.160"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"6.6.120"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"6.12.64"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"6.18.3"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"2.6.36","versionEndExcluding":"6.19"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df2711544b050aba703e6da418c53c7dc5d443ca"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/859bdf438f01d9aa7f84b09c1202d548c7cad9e8"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a7d7d96eeeab7af2bd01afbb3d9878a11a13d91"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0643d46759db8b84c0504a676043e5e341b6c81"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f7416bcbd951549e758d15fc1a96a5afc2e900"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a93edb23bcf07a3aaf8b598edfc2faa8fbcc0b6"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/635bc4def026a24e071436f4f356ea08c0eed6ff"}],"title":"fsnotify: do not generate ACCESS/MODIFY events on child for special files","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}