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CVE-2020-24717

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-24717 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting OpenZFS on FreeBSD systems prior to version 2.0.0-rc1, where group permissions are incorrectly interpreted as user permissions, effectively granting broader access than intended (e.g., 0770 becomes 0777). With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local vulnerability is easy to exploit and can lead to significant impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openzfs:openzfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / openzfs/zfs/commit/716b53d0a14c72bda16c0872565dd1909757e73f
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / openzfs/zfs/compare/zfs-0.8.4...zfs-2.0.0-rc1
PatchThird Party Advisory
jira.ixsystems.com / browse/NAS-107270
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
reviews.freebsd.org / D26107
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory