CVE-2021-20269

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5) in kexec-tools project kexec-tools. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-276
Published: 2022-03-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

kexec-tools_project:kexec-tools

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934261
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934261

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