CVSS 3.1
6.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-15436
Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by leveraging improper access to a certain error field.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- broadcom:brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:a250_firmware
- netapp:a700s_firmware
- netapp:aff_500f_firmware
- netapp:aff_8300_firmware
- netapp:aff_8700_firmware
- netapp:aff_a400_firmware
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:fabric-attached_storage_a400_firmware
- netapp:fas_500f_firmware
- netapp:fas_8300_firmware
- netapp:fas_8700_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h610c_firmware
- netapp:h610s_firmware
- netapp:h615c_firmware
- netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire_baseboard_management_controller_firmware