Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-16261

Medium 6.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Winston 1.5.4 devices allow a U-Boot interrupt, resulting in local root access.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://winstonprivacy.com/ x_refsource_MISC
https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/winston-privacy-version-1.5.4 x_refsource_MISC