Insecure Default Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004946
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-26088  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Default. A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1