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CVE-2020-10766
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Low
- Base Score
- 2.1/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 1.8/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- Low
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- High
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | 5.8.0 |