High (7.8). EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.
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
1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)