Medium (6.0). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel through 5.8.7, local attackers able to inject conntrack netlink configuration could overflow a local buffer, causing crashes or triggering use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c, aka CID-1cc5ef91d2ff.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.0 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)