CVE-2025-71239 PUBLISHED

audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 18.02.2026 Published: 17.03.2026 Updated: 17.03.2026

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

audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class

fchmodat2(), introduced in version 6.6 is currently not in the change attribute class of audit. Calling fchmodat2() to change a file attribute in the same fashion than chmod() or fchmodat() will bypass audit rules such as:

-w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa

The current patch adds fchmodat2() to the change attributes class.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to f714315d7d68898d03093f67285256a8770f903c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 3ee75b13ea5f05ff9adc784b2464825bd70eb119 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 57489a89657cc94bf6ad8427d1902daba9156aa1 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 91e27bc79c3bca93c06bf5a471d47df9a35b3741 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 3e762a03713e8c25ca0108c075d662c897fc0623 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4fed776ca86378da7dd743a7b648e20b025ba8ef (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to c4334c0d0e7d6f02ed93756fd4ba807e3d00c05f (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4f493a6079b588cf1f04ce5ed6cdad45ab0d53dc (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc1 to * (incl.)

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