CVSS 3.1
4.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2020-35508
Medium (4.5). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-665, CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:a700s_firmware
- netapp:aff_a400_firmware
- netapp:brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
- netapp:fas8300_firmware
- netapp:fas8700_firmware
- netapp:h300e_firmware
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500e_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h610c_firmware
- netapp:h610s_firmware
- netapp:h615c_firmware
- netapp:h700e_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- redhat:enterprise_linux
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210513-0006/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948