Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2025-37863
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: don't allow datadir only In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
EPSS: 0.003 (17.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Linux — versions cc0918b3582c98f12cfb30bf7496496d14bff3e9, 6.6.23, 24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.15
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-37863?
- CVE-2025-37863 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-05-09.
- How severe is CVE-2025-37863?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.