CVE-2025-68767 | hfsplus: Verify inode mode when loading from disk

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: Verify inode mode when loading from disk syzbot is reporting that S_IFMT bits of inode->i_mode can become bogus when the S_IFMT bits of the 16bits "mode" field loaded from disk are corrupted. According to [1], the permissions field was treated as reserved in Mac OS 8 and 9. According to [2], the reserved field was explicitly initialized with 0, and that field must remain 0 as long as reserved. Therefore, when the "mode" field is not 0 (i.e. no longer reserved), the file must be S_IFDIR if dir == 1, and the file must be one of S_IFREG/S_IFLNK/S_IFCHR/ S_IFBLK/S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK if dir == 0.

Published: 2026-01-13 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-68767 is rated Low Risk (7.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-68767

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 2026-06-15 0.04% 0.17% +0.13%
2 2026-06-11 0.05% 0.04% -0.01%
3 2026-05-15 0.05%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68767

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68767

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68767

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debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-68767 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-2025-68767
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68767
suse medium CVE-2025-68767 severity moderate: SUSE including 40 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, cluster-md-kmp-default-4.12.14-122.293.1, …), 129 product×package rows across 20 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0, … (20 product lines)): Will Not Fix 54, Known Not Affected 45, Fixed 30. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68767/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68767 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1562 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1157, ignored 183, released 150, needed 50, pending 12, not-affected 10. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68767

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68767

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References for CVE-2025-68767

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