CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-10757
High (7.8). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel in versions after 4.5-rc1 in the way mremap handled DAX Huge Pages. This flaw allows a local attacker with access to a DAX enabled storage to escalate their privileges on the system.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-119, CWE-843
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
- opensuse:leap
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_mrg
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1842525
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5bfea2d9b17f1034a68147a8b03b9789af5700f9
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IEM47BXZJLODRH5YNNZSAQ2NVM63MYMC/