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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-26708

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13.

HIGH 7.0EPSS 1.59%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.59%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.

CVSS 3.1
7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.59% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-667
Affected
linux/linux kernel · netapp/aff baseboard management controller · netapp/cloud backup · netapp/fas baseboard management controller · netapp/solidfire \& hci management node · netapp/solidfire baseboard management controller · netapp/baseboard management controller 500f firmware · netapp/baseboard management controller a250 firmware · netapp/hci h410c firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.