GHSA-ffxp-vqfg-26jp — medium GitHub Advisory (CVE-2025-38430)

Description

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

nfsd: nfsd4_spo_must_allow() must check this is a v4 compound request

If the request being processed is not a v4 compound request, then
examining the cstate can have undefined results.

This patch adds a check that the rpc procedure being executed
(rq_procinfo) is the NFSPROC4_COMPOUND procedure.

Score	Percentile
0.03%	9.67%

Base score	Version	Severity	Vector
5.5	3.1	—	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. Attack complexity (AC:L) Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup. Privileges required (PR:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. User interaction (UI:N) Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping. Scope (S:U) Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems. Confidentiality (C:N) Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way. Integrity (I:N) Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged. Availability (A:H) Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

Type	Value
GHSA	GHSA-ffxp-vqfg-26jp ↗
CVE	CVE-2025-38430 ↗