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CVE-2020-29373

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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