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CVE-2020-7453

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7453 is a missing null termination vulnerability in FreeBSD versions 12.1-STABLE, 12.1-RELEASE, 11.3-STABLE, and 11.3-RELEASE. A malicious jail superuser with nested jail creation permissions could exploit this to read kernel memory by manipulating the "osrelease" configuration option. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.0 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with high impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:08.jail.asc
PatchVendor Advisory