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CVE-2020-10766

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-440
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

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