Vulnerability · Published Sep 13, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-25284

Medium 4.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the kernel-tools-libs-devel package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-305.el8ALSA-2021:1578
Debian:12linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25284
Debian:13linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25284
Debian:14linux5.8.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25284
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25284
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25284
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-25284

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References