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Vulnerability · Published Sep 24, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-26088

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the linux package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26088
Debian:13linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26088
Debian:14linux5.7.17-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26088
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-26088
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-26088
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-26088

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References