CVE-2025-37863 — Improper Validation of Consistency within Input in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 9
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: don't allow datadir only
In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data
layer, but there's no current use case for this.
Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,
only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling
this case, resulting in an Oops.
Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages14 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxcc0918b3582c98f12cfb30bf7496496d14bff3e9 — 0874b629f65320778e7e3e206177770666d9db18+4