ghsa-55h9-m2g5-r4xm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-03-11 00:02
Modified
2022-03-17 00:02
Details

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.

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   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2021-20269",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-276",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2022-03-10T17:41:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-55h9-m2g5-r4xm",
   modified: "2022-03-17T00:02:04Z",
   published: "2022-03-11T00:02:34Z",
   references: [
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         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20269",
      },
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         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4404",
      },
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         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20269",
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         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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