CVE-2025-68733 | smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels If an unprivileged task is allowed to relabel itself (/smack/relabel-self is not empty), it can freely create new labels by writing their names into own /proc/PID/attr/smack/current This occurs because do_setattr() imports the provided label in advance, before checking "relabel-self" list. This change ensures that the "relabel-self" list is checked before importing the label.

Published: 2025-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-68733 is rated Low Risk (20.7/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.07%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-68733

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-03 0.05% 0.07% +0.02%
2 2026-05-23 0.06% 0.05% -0.01%
3 2026-02-10 0.06%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68733

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68733

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68733

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-68733 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68733
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68733
suse medium CVE-2025-68733 severity moderate: SUSE including 293 source package names (2.1.3-6.115:kernel-default-base-6.4.0-39.1.21.16, 2.1.3-7.146:kernel-rt-6.4.0-40.1, …), 355 product×package rows across 45 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container, … (45 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 118, Known Not Affected 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68733/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68733 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 182, released 147, needed 50, pending 14, not-affected 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68733

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68733

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-68733

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