CVE-2020-29373 (GCVE-0-2020-29373)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-28 06:19 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:48
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Summary
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
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
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