CVE-2025-68788 — Trust of System Event Data in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fsnotify: do not generate ACCESS/MODIFY events on child for special files
inotify/fanotify do not allow users with no read access to a file to
subscribe to events (e.g. IN_ACCESS/IN_MODIFY), but they do allow the
same user to subscribe for watching events on children when the user
has access to the parent directory (e.g. /dev).
Users with no read access to a file but with read access to its parent
directory can still stat the…
Affected Packages16 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux72acc854427948efed7a83da27f7dc3239ac9afc — df2711544b050aba703e6da418c53c7dc5d443ca+7
🔴Vulnerability Details
10OSV▶
linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 vulnerabilities↗2026-03-17