CVE-2025-37785

HIGHNVD 7.17.1—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2025-04-18. NVD baseline CVSS 7.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
7.1
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 7.1Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir

Mounting a corrupted filesystem with directory which contains '.' dir entry with rec_len == block size results in out-of-bounds read (later on, when the corrupted directory is removed).

ext4_empty_dir() assumes every ext4 directory contains at least '.' and '..' as directory entries in the first data block. It first loads the '.' dir entry, performs sanity checks by calling ext4_check_dir_entry() and then uses its rec_len member to compute the location of '..' dir entry (in ext4_next_entry). It assumes the '..' dir entry fits into the same data block.

If the rec_len of '.' is precisely one block (4KB), it slips through the sanity checks (it is considered the last directory entry in the data block) and leaves "struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de" point exactly past the memory slot allocated to the data block. The following call to ext4_check_dir_entry() on new value of de then dereferences this pointer which results in out-of-bounds mem access.

Fix this by extending __ext4_check_dir_entry() to check for '.' dir entries that reach the end of data block. Make sure to ignore the phony dir entries for checksum (by checking name_len for non-zero).

Note: This is reported by KASAN as use-after-free in case another structure was recently freed from the slot past the bound, but it is really an OOB read.

This issue was found by syzkaller tool.

Call Trace: [ 38.594108] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710 [ 38.594649] Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802b41a004 by task syz-executor/5375 [ 38.595158] [ 38.595288] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5375 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7 #1 [ 38.595298] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 38.595304] Call Trace: [ 38.595308] [ 38.595311] dump_stack_lvl+0xa7/0xd0 [ 38.595325] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3f0 [ 38.595339] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710 [ 38.595349] print_report+0xaa/0x250 [ 38.595359] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710 [ 38.595368] ? kasan_addr_to_slab+0x9/0x90 [ 38.595378] kasan_report+0xab/0xe0 [ 38.595389] ? __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710 [ 38.595400] __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x67e/0x710 [ 38.595410] ext4_empty_dir+0x465/0x990 [ 38.595421] ? __pfx_ext4_empty_dir+0x10/0x10 [ 38.595432] ext4_rmdir.part.0+0x29a/0xd10 [ 38.595441] ? __dquot_initialize+0x2a7/0xbf0 [ 38.595455] ? __pfx_ext4_rmdir.part.0+0x10/0x10 [ 38.595464] ? __pfx___dquot_initialize+0x10/0x10 [ 38.595478] ? down_write+0xdb/0x140 [ 38.595487] ? __pfx_down_write+0x10/0x10 [ 38.595497] ext4_rmdir+0xee/0x140 [ 38.595506] vfs_rmdir+0x209/0x670 [ 38.595517] ? lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x3b/0x190 [ 38.595529] do_rmdir+0x363/0x3c0 [ 38.595537] ? __pfx_do_rmdir+0x10/0x10 [ 38.595544] ? strncpy_from_user+0x1ff/0x2e0 [ 38.595561] __x64_sys_unlinkat+0xf0/0x130 [ 38.595570] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180 [ 38.595583] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

CVSS v3
7.1
EG Score
7.1(medium)
EG Risk
37(Track)
EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity71% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS
17.4%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 18, 2025

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Jul 14, 2026
Patch available.
generic Patch Available

[SECURITY] [DLA 4178-1] linux security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e47f472a664d70a3d104a6c2a035cdff55a719b4
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e206778e96e8667d3bde695ad372c296dc9353
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7531a4f99c3887439d778afaf418d1a01a5f01b
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47584c556444cf7acb66b26a62cbc348eb92b78
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac28c5684c1cdab650a7e5065b19e91577d37a4b
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89503e5eae64637d0fa2218912b54660effe7d93
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53bc45da8d8da92ec07877f5922b130562eb4b00
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52a5509ab19a5d3afe301165d9b5787bba34d842
generic

ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14da7dbecb430e35b5889da8dae7bef33173b351

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-37785(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(30)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.142.152~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-host (5.15.0-1050.54) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-20.04-edge (5.15.0.142.137) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips (5.15.0.1085.75) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.11.0-28.28) @ oracular2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-aws-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1086.89) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.14.0-22.22) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1091.89) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips (5.15.0.1091.76) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (5.15.0.1091.100~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure (6.14.0-1007.7) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-24.04b (6.11.0-1024.24) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-lowlatency-64k (6.11.0-1015.16) @ oracular2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iotg (5.15.0.1081.81) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iotg-edge (5.15.0.1083.89~20.04.1) @ focal2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-6.11 (6.11.0-1018.18) @ oracular2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-nolpae (5.15.0.1080.78) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-64k (6.14.0-1007.7) @ plucky2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-1040.43~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.4.0-1069 (5.4.0-1069.73) @ focal2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-16.04-edge (4.15.0.242.254~16.04.1) @ xenial2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-lts-xenial (4.4.0.273.279) @ xenial2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-6.8.1-1035-realtime (6.8.1-1035.36~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.8 (6.8.0-1040.44) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-realtime-6.8 (6.8.0-2031.32) @ noble2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-85.85~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips-5.4 (5.4.0.1154.96) @ focal2026-05-30ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips-4.15 (4.15.0.2086.84) @ bionic2026-05-30ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-570.21.1.el9_62025-06-09redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-55.14.1.el10_02025-06-02redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(23)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-23 02:54 UTCEG score recompute
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-37785?
CVE-2025-37785 is a high vulnerability published on April 18, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir Mounting a corrupted filesystem with directory which contains '.' dir entry with rec_len == block size results in out-of-bounds read (later on, when the corrupted directory is removed).…
When was CVE-2025-37785 disclosed?
CVE-2025-37785 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 18, 2025, with the most recent update on July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2025-37785 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-37785 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 17.4% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-37785?
CVE-2025-37785 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-37785?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2025-37785, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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