CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-25645
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-319
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Traffic between two Geneve endpoints may be unencrypted when IPsec is configured to encrypt traffic for the specific UDP port used by the GENEVE tunnel allowing anyone between the two endpoints to read the traffic unencrypted. The main threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.9.0)
• linux linux kernel 5.9.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• netapp solidfire \& hci management node
• netapp solidfire \& hci storage node
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
• netapp hci compute node bios
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161229/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0074-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883988 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201103-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4774 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161229/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0074-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883988 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201103-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4774 Third Party Advisory