CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-23134
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Use After Free vulnerability in nfc sockets in the Linux Kernel before 5.12.4 allows local attackers to elevate their privileges. In typical configurations, the issue can only be triggered by a privileged local user with the CAP_NET_RAW capability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- netapp:solidfire_baseboard_management_controller_firmware
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=c61760e6940d
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LZYORWNQIHNWRFYRDXBWYWBYM46PDZEN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QALNQT4LJFVSSA3MWCIECVY4AFPP4X77/