Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting perf package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-PERF-14865651
  • published5 Jan 2026
  • disclosed5 Jan 2026

Introduced: 5 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-68764  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 perf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

NFS: Automounted filesystems should inherit ro,noexec,nodev,sync flags

When a filesystem is being automounted, it needs to preserve the user-set superblock mount options, such as the "ro" flag.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1