CVE-2021-20269

2022-03-0916:29:47

CWE-276

redhat

www.cve.org

kexec-tools

log file

permissions

vulnerability

confidentiality

fedora

rhel

AI Score

5.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

12.6%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "kexec-tools",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Fedora kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.20-47"
      }
    ]
  }
]