CVE-2020-29373

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6

published November 28, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during path lookups, and thus a process inside a mount namespace can escape to unintended filesystem locations, aka CID-ff002b30181d.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00518 · 43.2th percentile
Published
2020-11-28T06:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 NOV 06:19Z
    An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6
    cvelistv5