CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2020-26088
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-276
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.html
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html