CVSS 3.1
4.1 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-25656
Medium (4.1). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free was found in the way the console subsystem was using ioctls KDGKBSENT and KDSKBSENT. A local user could use this flaw to get read memory access out of bounds. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san