CVE-2020-36691

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.3%CWE-674

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

24 Mar 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8. lib/nlattr.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion) via a nested Netlink policy with a back reference.

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7690aa1cdf7c4565ad6b013b324c28b685505e24