CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-25221
High (7.8). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
get_gate_page in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7 allows privilege escalation because of incorrect reference counting (caused by gate page mishandling) of the struct page that backs the vsyscall page. The result is a refcount underflow. This can be triggered by any 64-bit process that can use ptrace() or process_vm_readv(), aka CID-9fa2dd946743.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-672
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:hci_compute_node
- netapp:solidfire\,_enterprise_sds_\&_hci_storage_node
- netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire_baseboard_management_controller
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/10/4
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.7
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/8891adc61dce2a8a41fc0c23262b681c3ec4b73a
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/9fa2dd946743ae6f30dc4830da19147bf100a7f2
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201001-0003/