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CVE-2020-10732

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10732 is a local information disclosure and denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel's userspace core dump implementation, affecting various Linux distributions including Canonical, NetApp, and openSUSE. With a CVSS score of 4.4 (Medium), a local attacker can crash a simple program to exfiltrate private kernel data. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.16.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.4, < 4.4.226CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.9, < 4.9.226CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.14, < 4.14.183CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.19, < 4.19.126CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.rt56.1131.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-240.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-alt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-10732Moderate

kernel: uninitialized kernel data leak in userspace coredumps

May 1, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00008.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / google/kmsan/issues/76
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / ruscur/linux/commit/a95cdec9fa0c08e6eeb410d461c03af8fd1fef0a
PatchThird Party Advisory
git.kernel.org / pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit
PatchVendor Advisory
lore.kernel.org / lkml/CAG_fn=VZZ7yUxtOGzuTLkr7wmfXWtKK9BHHYawj=rt9XWnCYvg%40mail.gmail.com
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20210129-0005
Third Party Advisory
twitter.com / grsecurity/status/1252558055629299712
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4411-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4427-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4439-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4440-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4485-1
Third Party Advisory