CVE-2021-38199

2021-08-1021:21:30

redhat.com

access.redhat.com

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

3.3 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.1%

JSON

A flaw was found in the hanging of mounts in the Linux kernel’s NFS4 subsystem where remote servers are unreachable for the client during migration of data from one server to another (during trunking detection). This flaw allows a remote NFS4 server (if the client is connected) to starve the resources, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Mitigation

If not using NFS, then to mitigate this issue, prevent the module nfsv4 from being loaded. Please see <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278> for information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.