CVE-2025-71239

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class fchmodat2(), introduced in version 6.6 is currently not in the change attribute class of audit. Calling fchmodat2() to change a file attribute in the same fashion than chmod() or fchmodat() will bypass audit rules such as: -w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa The current patch adds fchmodat2() to the change attributes class.

References

https://www.bencteux.fr/posts/missing_syscalls_audit/

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f714315d7d68898d03093f67285256a8770f903c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4334c0d0e7d6f02ed93756fd4ba807e3d00c05f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91e27bc79c3bca93c06bf5a471d47df9a35b3741

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57489a89657cc94bf6ad8427d1902daba9156aa1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fed776ca86378da7dd743a7b648e20b025ba8ef

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f493a6079b588cf1f04ce5ed6cdad45ab0d53dc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ee75b13ea5f05ff9adc784b2464825bd70eb119

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e762a03713e8c25ca0108c075d662c897fc0623

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-17

Updated: 2026-03-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00033