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CVE-2025-12801: Nfs-utils: rpc.mountd in the nfs-utils privilege escalation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-03-04 · updated 2026-10-16
- Weakness: CWE-279
Description
A vulnerability was recently discovered in the rpc.mountd daemon in the nfs-utils package for Linux, that allows a NFSv3 client to escalate the privileges assigned to it in the /etc/exports file at mount time. In particular, it allows the client to access any subdirectory or subtree of an exported directory, regardless of the set file permissions, and regardless of any 'root_squash' or 'all_squash' attributes that would normally be expected to apply to that client.
Affected products
- Linux-Nfs Nfs-Utils: all versions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3938
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3939
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3940
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3941
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3942
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5127
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5606
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5867
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5873
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5877
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12801
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413081
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