CVE-2020-12114

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CVSS 3.1

4.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

May 4, 2020 (May 4, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A pivot_root race condition in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel 4.4.x before 4.4.221, 4.9.x before 4.9.221, 4.14.x before 4.14.178, 4.19.x before 4.19.119, and 5.x before 5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by corrupting a mountpoint reference counter.

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-362
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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