CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20269

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-03-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-03-10
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:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-276

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• kexec-tools project kexec-tools (< 2.0.21-8) • kexec-tools project kexec-tools (< 2.0.20-47)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness

References