CVE-2026-74595 PUBLISHED

fscrypt: use the mount idmap for the owner check in fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

fscrypt: use the mount idmap for the owner check in fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy()

fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() calls inode_owner_or_capable() with &nop_mnt_idmap before allowing an encryption policy to be set, instead of the idmap of the mount the ioctl was issued on.

fscrypt is used by filesystems that support idmapped mounts (e.g. ext4, f2fs), so on such a mount this compares the caller's fsuid against the unmapped on-disk owner rather than the mapped owner: the actual owner can be wrongly denied with -EACCES and an unrelated caller wrongly allowed. Use file_mnt_idmap(filp) instead.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 14f3db5542e62bcf6fe088a09760ac52d55306c5 to 33b7e810ce09955aa02f3b632455cf5e7ac990a9 (excl.)
  • affected from 14f3db5542e62bcf6fe088a09760ac52d55306c5 to 6a67c460b12315033268dce597546984fe5739e7 (excl.)
  • affected from 14f3db5542e62bcf6fe088a09760ac52d55306c5 to 653e888a24c87b8bbeab44d7e558a1c1a3641088 (excl.)
  • affected from 14f3db5542e62bcf6fe088a09760ac52d55306c5 to 98516ba8b817f34e86bdd7a5b7a383cff75c3ddf (excl.)
  • affected from 14f3db5542e62bcf6fe088a09760ac52d55306c5 to cf6c993c0feca7984797e634deba3c80342e199a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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