Medium severity · published May 26, 2021
CVE-2021-20297
A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0
5.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33 · source: NVD
NE
Networkmanager · Gnome
before 1.30.0 · source: NVD
OC
Openshift Container Platform · Redhat
4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20297
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20297
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943282
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