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CVE-2019-19241

7.8 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, the io_uring feature leads to requests that inadvertently have UID 0 and full capabilities, aka CID-181e448d8709. This is related to fs/io-wq.c, fs/io_uring.c, and net/socket.c. For example, an attacker can bypass intended restrictions on adding an IPv4 address to the loopback interface. This occurs because IORING_OP_SENDMSG operations, although requested in the context of an unprivileged user, are sometimes performed by a kernel worker thread without considering that context.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
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