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CVE-2025-38370: btrfs: fix failure to rebuild free space tree using multiple transactions

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.15% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 1e6ed33cabba8f06f532f2e5851a102602823734, 88fdd4899ea9bfe6cf943f099fcf8ad5df153782.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 1e6ed33cabba8f06f532f2e5851a102602823734, 88fdd4899ea9bfe6cf943f099fcf8ad5df153782 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix failure to rebuild free space tree using multiple transactions If we are rebuilding a free space tree, while modifying the free space tree we may need to allocate a new metadata block group. If we end up using multiple transactions for the rebuild, when we call btrfs_end_transaction() we enter btrfs_create_pending_block_groups() which calls add_block_group_free_space() to add items to the free space tree for the block group. Then later during the free space tree rebuild, at btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree(), we may find such new block groups and call populate_free_space_tree() for them, which fails with -EEXIST because there are already items in the free space tree. Then we abort the transaction with -EEXIST at btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree(). Notice that we say "may find" the new block groups because a new block group may be inserted in the block groups rbtree, which is being iterated by the rebuild process, before or after the current node where the rebuild process is currently at. Syzbot recently reported such case which produces a trace like the following: ------------[ cut here ]------------ BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -17) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7626 at fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1341 btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree+0x470/0x54c fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1341 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7626 Comm: syz.2.25 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-00085-gd7fa1af5b33e-dirty #0 PREEMPT Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025 pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree+0x470/0x54c fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1341 lr : btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree+0x470/0x54c fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1341 sp : ffff80009c4f7740 x29: ffff80009c4f77b0 x28: ffff0000d4c3f400 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff70001389eee8 x24: 0000000000000003 x23: 1fffe000182b6e7b x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c15b73d8 x20: 00000000ffffffef x19: ffff0000c15b7378 x18: 1fffe0003386f276 x17: ffff80008f31e000 x16: ffff80008adbe98c x15: 0000000000000001 x14: 1fffe0001b281550 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: ffff60001b281551 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 1c8922000a902c00 x8 : 1c8922000a902c00 x7 : ffff800080485878 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : ffff80008047843c x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff80008b3ebc40 x0 : 0000000000000001 Call trace: btrfs_rebuild_free_space_tree+0x470/0x54c fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1341 (P) btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0xa78/0xe10 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:3074 btrfs_remount_rw fs/btrfs/super.c:1319 [inline] btrfs_reconfigure+0x828/0x2418 fs/btrfs/super.c:1543 reconfigure_super+0x1d4/0x6f0 fs/super.c:1083 do_remount fs/namespace.c:3365 [inline] path_mount+0xb34/0xde0 fs/namespace.c:4200 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4221 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4432 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4409 [inline] __arm64_sys_mount+0x3e8/0x468 fs/namespace.c:4409 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151 el0_svc+0x58/0x17c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:767 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x78/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:786 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600 irq event stamp: 330 hardirqs last enabled at (329): [<ffff80008048590c>] raw_spin_rq_unlock_irq kernel/sched/sched.h:1525 [inline] hardirqs last enabled at (329): [<ffff80008048590c>] finish_lock_switch+0xb0/0x1c0 kernel/sched/core.c:5130 hardirqs last disabled at (330): [<ffff80008adb9e60>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:511 softirqs last enabled at (10): [<ffff8000801fbf10>] local_bh_enable+0 ---truncated---

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 4th percentile
CWE
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CISA KEV
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EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel6.14 and later · before 6.15.6
  • linux linux kernel6.16

Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 6.14affected
    • 882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93 and later · before 88fdd4899ea9bfe6cf943f099fcf8ad5df153782affected · git
    • 882af9f13e830c0a4ef696bb72cd5998a5067a93 and later · before 1e6ed33cabba8f06f532f2e5851a102602823734affected · git
    • before 6.14not affected · semver
    • 6.15.6 and later · up to and including 6.15.*not affected · semver
    • 6.16 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

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    22Monitor

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux1e6ed33cabba8f06f532f2e5851a102602823734Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux88fdd4899ea9bfe6cf943f099fcf8ad5df153782Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Variant candidates

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

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