CVE-2021-20269

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CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p17

Published

Mar 10, 2022 (Mar 10, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47.

Vendors: kexec-tools project
Products: kexec-tools
Weakness: CWE-276
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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