CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-32629
High (7.8) in canonical ubuntu linux. EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu Kernels overlayfs ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data skip permission checks when calling ovl_do_setxattr on Ubuntu kernels
Severity
- EPSS
- 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174577/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0097-1.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-32629
- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-July/140920.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6250-1
- https://wiz.io/blog/ubuntu-overlayfs-vulnerability