CVE-2021-20269 is a medium-severity vulnerability in kexec-tools, affecting Fedora and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and 2.0.20-47 respectively. It allows a local unprivileged user to read a poorly-permissioned log file, potentially leaking sensitive kernel internal information from a previous system panic. The attack requires local access and is of low complexity, with the primary impact being a high risk to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.0.21-8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kexec-tools_project:kexec-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.0.20-47CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kexec-tools_project:kexec-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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