CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26088
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
Description
A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.8.2)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.2 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.2 Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/ Patch, Third Party Advisory