Insufficient Granularity of Access Control Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.10-rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6114721
  • published11 Dec 2023
  • disclosed8 Dec 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Dec 2023

CVE-2020-8694  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1220  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Granularity of Access Control allowing an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1