Medium severity · published Mar 26, 2021
CVE-2020-35508
A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering…
4.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
before 5.12; 5.12; 5.12; 5.12; 5.12; 5.12 · source: NVD
AF
A700s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
AA
Aff A400 Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
BF
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FF
Fas8300 Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
FF
Fas8700 Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H300e Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H300s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H410c Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H410s Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HF
H500e Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35508
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35508
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724
Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210513-0006/
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