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Information Disclosure

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Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

How It Works

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security. This happens through multiple channels: verbose error messages that display stack traces revealing internal paths and frameworks, improperly secured debug endpoints left active in production, and misconfigured servers that expose directory listings or version control artifacts like .git folders. APIs often leak excessive data in responses—returning full user objects when only a name is needed, or revealing system internals through metadata fields.

Attackers exploit these exposures systematically. They probe for common sensitive files (.env, config.php, backup archives), trigger error conditions to extract framework details, and analyze response timing or content differences to enumerate valid usernames or resources. Even subtle variations—like "invalid password" versus "user not found"—enable account enumeration. Exposed configuration files frequently contain database credentials, API keys, or internal service URLs that unlock further attack vectors.

The attack flow typically starts with passive reconnaissance: examining HTTP headers, JavaScript bundles, and public endpoints for version information and architecture clues. Active probing follows—testing predictable paths, manipulating parameters to trigger exceptions, and comparing responses across similar requests to identify information leakage patterns.

Impact

  • Credential compromise: Exposed configuration files, hardcoded secrets in source code, or API keys enable direct authentication bypass
  • Attack surface mapping: Stack traces, framework versions, and internal paths help attackers craft targeted exploits for known vulnerabilities
  • Data breach: Direct exposure of user data, payment information, or proprietary business logic through oversharing APIs or accessible backups
  • Privilege escalation pathway: Internal URLs, service discovery information, and architecture details facilitate lateral movement and SSRF attacks
  • Compliance violations: GDPR, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA penalties for exposing regulated data through preventable disclosures

Real-World Examples

A major Git repository exposure affected thousands of websites when .git folders remained accessible on production servers, allowing attackers to reconstruct entire source code histories including deleted commits containing credentials. Tools like GitDumper automated mass exploitation of this misconfiguration.

Cloud storage misconfigurations have repeatedly exposed sensitive data when companies left S3 buckets or Azure Blob containers publicly readable. One incident exposed 150 million voter records because verbose API error messages revealed the storage URL structure, and no authentication was required.

Framework debug modes left enabled in production have caused numerous breaches. Django's DEBUG=True setting exposed complete stack traces with database queries and environment variables, while Laravel's debug pages revealed encryption keys through the APP_KEY variable in environment dumps.

Mitigation

  • Generic error pages: Return uniform error messages to users; log detailed exceptions server-side only
  • Disable debug modes: Enforce production configurations that suppress stack traces, verbose logging, and debug endpoints through deployment automation
  • Access control audits: Restrict or remove development artifacts (.git, backup files, phpinfo()) and internal endpoints before deployment
  • Response minimization: API responses should return only necessary fields; implement allowlists rather than blocklists for data exposure
  • Security headers: Deploy X-Content-Type-Options, remove server version banners, and disable directory indexing
  • Timing consistency: Ensure authentication and validation responses take uniform time regardless of input validity

Recent CVEs (74100)

EPSS 0% CVSS 2.0
LOW PATCH Monitor

Environment variable leakage in OpenClaw (npm package, versions ≤2026.3.28) occurs because SSH-based sandbox backends pass the full unsanitized Node.js `process.env` object to SSH child processes, potentially exposing secrets such as API keys or credentials stored in the parent process environment. Exploitation is gated behind two non-default prerequisites: the SSH-based sandbox backend must be in use, and SSH environment variable forwarding must be enabled in the host's SSH daemon configuration. No active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified; EPSS sits at 0.01% (1st percentile) and SSVC rates exploitation as none, consistent with the vendor's own triage of this as a narrow, low-severity issue.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Silent message suppression in OpenClaw's Zalo webhook integration allows deduplicate key collisions across distinct conversations and senders, causing legitimate bot events to be silently dropped. All OpenClaw npm installations prior to version 2026.4.2 are affected via CPE cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw. An unauthenticated network attacker who can send or replay Zalo webhook events with a predictable message_id can cause cross-chat or cross-sender deduplication collisions, disrupting bot workflows without any visible error. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.04% (11th percentile) and SSVC confirms no active exploitation.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenClaw npm package versions up to and including 2026.3.28 leaks Authorization headers to attacker-controlled servers by forwarding them intact across cross-origin HTTP redirects during media downloads. An attacker who can induce a victim's OpenClaw instance to fetch a media URL that redirects cross-origin - to an attacker-controlled host - receives the victim's full Authorization bearer token. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists; EPSS of 0.03% (9th percentile) and SSVC exploitation status of 'none' indicate low current exploitation activity, though the credential-theft impact class is high for any user whose authorization tokens are intercepted.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Resource exhaustion in OpenClaw npm package versions up to 2026.3.28 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to degrade availability of the LINE webhook integration by flooding the endpoint with concurrent requests before signature verification occurs. The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9 reflects network-accessible, zero-privilege exploitation with bounded low availability impact; the vendor's own triage classifies severity as low due to the transient, non-persistent nature of the disruption. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation is confirmed - SSVC marks exploitation status as none, though the attack is rated automatable.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Information disclosure in OpenClaw (npm) before 2026.4.2 allows low-privilege authenticated Gateway clients to recover host filesystem paths and deployment metadata that should be restricted to admin-scoped sessions. The Gateway `connect` success (`hello-ok`) snapshot unconditionally included `configPath`, `stateDir`, and `authMode` fields for all authenticated clients regardless of scope, exposing server-side deployment topology. No active exploitation has been identified (EPSS 0.03%, 8th percentile; no CISA KEV listing), but the disclosed paths materially assist host fingerprinting and can lower the cost of subsequent chained attacks against the gateway infrastructure.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Callback origin mutation in OpenClaw's Plivo voice-call replay handler allows an attacker in possession of a captured valid Plivo webhook callback for a live call to inject a modified Host header during the replay window, causing OpenClaw to store an attacker-controlled domain as the callback base URL before replay rejection occurs. All npm releases of openclaw up to and including 2026.3.28 are affected; the vendor-triaged severity is low and scope is narrow, requiring pre-capture of a live call's callback as an explicit prerequisite. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS sits at 0.03% (7th percentile), consistent with minimal observed exploitation activity.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenClaw's Control UI bootstrap HTTP endpoint exposed internal system metadata - specifically the server version string and assistant agent identifier - in its JSON response payload to any unauthenticated network client on versions up to and including 2026.3.28. This constitutes a fingerprinting/information disclosure vulnerability (CWE-497) that enables attackers to enumerate precise deployment versions and agent configurations without authentication. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV, EPSS 0.03%), and the maintainer assessed severity as low-narrow; a patched release (2026.3.31) was published 2026-03-30.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Environment variable injection in OpenClaw (npm) versions through 2026.3.24 allows a local, low-privileged attacker who can submit approved exec requests to redirect git or AWS CLI behavior through attacker-controlled configuration files, enabling untrusted code execution via git template hooks or malicious AWS credential loading. The root cause is an incomplete host-env blocklist - specifically, GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR and AWS_CONFIG_FILE were absent from the sanitization policy in src/infra/host-env-security-policy.json and src/infra/host-env-security.ts. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS sits at the 3rd percentile and SSVC rates exploitation as none, indicating no known active threat activity.

Information Disclosure Openclaw
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.7
LOW Monitor

HTTP request smuggling in libsoup's header parsing enables unauthenticated remote attackers to inject malformed requests containing multiple conflicting Content-Length headers, potentially bypassing security controls or poisoning shared connection state in two-tier deployments. The flaw resides in soup_message_headers_append_common() within libsoup/soup-message-headers.c, which blindly appends header values without validating for duplicate or contradictory Content-Length fields - a direct violation of RFC 7230. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV), EPSS stands at 0.03% (8th percentile), and SSVC rates exploitation as none with partial technical impact, placing this firmly in the low-urgency tier despite its network-accessible attack vector.

Information Disclosure Request Smuggling Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 +5
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PKCE code_verifier validation in @node-oauth/oauth2-server (versions <= 5.2.1) does not enforce RFC 7636 ABNF requirements, accepting arbitrarily short values including single-character strings for S256 flows. An attacker who intercepts an authorization code can brute-force the code_verifier online because failed attempts do not consume the code, allowing repeated guesses until token issuance succeeds. A working proof-of-concept is publicly documented in the GitHub security advisory; no active exploitation confirmed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Node.js Microsoft +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory exhaustion in the OpenTelemetry dotnet OTLP exporter (versions 1.13.1 through 1.15.1) enables a denial-of-service condition when an attacker controls the configured telemetry backend or can MitM the export connection. Both the gRPC and HTTP/protobuf transport paths in OtlpGrpcExportClient and OtlpHttpExportClient read the full HTTP error response body into memory without any size cap, allowing an adversary to return an arbitrarily large body and exhaust the process heap. No active exploitation is confirmed (absent from CISA KEV, EPSS 0.01%), and vendor-released patch 1.15.2 is available.

Information Disclosure Opentelemetry Dotnet Open Telemetry
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Cache poisoning in @astrojs/node versions 9.4.4 and earlier allows unauthenticated remote attackers to poison CDN caches by sending malformed if-match headers to static asset endpoints, causing the server to return 500 errors with immutable one-year cache directives instead of the correct 412 Precondition Failed response. This vulnerability affects all subsequent requests to poisoned assets until the cache expires, breaking application functionality for legitimate users. The vulnerability is not actively exploited in the wild, but proof-of-concept exploitation is straightforward and requires only a single crafted HTTP request.

Information Disclosure Kubernetes Mozilla
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

n8n-mcp v2.47.10 and earlier in HTTP transport mode logs sensitive authentication credentials and request metadata regardless of authentication outcome, allowing disclosure of bearer tokens, API keys, and JSON-RPC payloads to any system with access to server logs. While access control correctly rejects unauthenticated requests with 401 responses, the sensitive data from those rejected requests is persisted in logs before authentication is enforced, creating an information disclosure vulnerability (CWE-532) with CVSS 5.3 (low confidentiality impact). No public exploit code or active exploitation is documented; patch is available in v2.47.11.

Information Disclosure Docker Node.js
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Uninitialized variable usage in OpenSC's libopensc library enables information disclosure and denial of service when processing specially crafted responses from malicious USB devices or smart cards. Attackers must physically present a crafted USB or smart card device to trigger the vulnerability, which reads uninitialized memory from the stack or heap, potentially exposing sensitive data or causing application crashes. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 +4
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Linux kernel nexthop query handling allows local authenticated attackers to crash the kernel by querying nexthop objects with large Equal-Cost Multi-Path groups via the RTM_GETNEXTHOP netlink message. The vulnerability stems from fixed-size socket buffer allocation that overflows when processing nexthop groups exceeding approximately 512 members, triggering a kernel warning and potential system instability.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

HT Mega Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before version 3.0.7 leaks customer PII through an unauthenticated AJAX endpoint, exposing full name, city, state, and country for any orders placed in the prior 7 days. Any remote unauthenticated attacker can query this endpoint without credentials on affected WordPress installations. A public proof-of-concept is available and SSVC classifies the attack as automatable, enabling mass scanning of exposed WooCommerce stores; however, the EPSS score of 0.77% suggests exploitation has not yet become widespread.

WordPress Information Disclosure Ht Mega Addons For Elementor +1
NVD WPScan VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.5
LOW PATCH Monitor

UUID library versions before 14.0.0 make unexpected writes to external output buffers when generating UUID versions 3, 5, or 6, potentially corrupting adjacent memory. UUID version 4, the most commonly deployed variant, is unaffected. The vulnerability requires local access and non-default buffer configuration to exploit, resulting in integrity compromise rather than code execution or availability impact.

Information Disclosure Uuid
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

Reliance on reverse DNS resolution in ericc-ch copilot-api up to version 0.7.0 allows authenticated remote attackers to manipulate the Host header in the /token endpoint, leading to information disclosure. The vulnerability affects the Header Handler component and has been publicly disclosed with exploit code available; the vendor did not respond to early disclosure notification.

Information Disclosure
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

IBM Security Verify Access and Verify Identity Access products versions 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 and 11.0 through 11.0.2 use cryptographic algorithms weaker than expected, allowing authenticated network attackers to decrypt highly sensitive information. The vulnerability affects both containerized and non-containerized deployments across multiple major versions. CVSS 6.5 reflects high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity, though authenticated access is required.

Information Disclosure IBM
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.7
LOW Monitor

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0 through 12.2 contains a security misconfiguration in the user access control panel that allows high-privilege administrators to modify integrity settings without proper authorization constraints. The vulnerability is remotely accessible and requires existing administrative credentials, resulting in limited integrity impact with no confidentiality or availability effect. CVSS score of 2.7 reflects the low risk profile due to required administrative authentication and minimal scope of impact.

Information Disclosure IBM
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

LangSmith Client SDKs in JavaScript (prior to 0.5.19) and Python (prior to 0.7.31) fail to apply output redaction controls to streaming token events, allowing sensitive LLM-generated content to leak into LangSmith platform storage despite hideOutputs/hide_outputs being enabled. Unauthenticated remote attackers can intercept or access unredacted streamed tokens if they gain visibility into run events, bypassing the intended confidentiality controls.

Python Information Disclosure Langsmith Sdk +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.9
LOW POC Monitor

Sandbox bypass in ByteDance verl up to version 0.7.0 allows remote attackers to achieve limited information disclosure through manipulation of the math_equal function in prime_math/grader.py. The vulnerability requires high attack complexity and has been publicly documented with exploit code available, though the vendor has not responded to early disclosure attempts.

Information Disclosure Verl Bytedance
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.7
LOW PATCH Monitor

Buffer over-read in rust-openssl's password callback APIs allows information disclosure when a user-supplied callback returns a value larger than the provided buffer. The vulnerability affects rust-openssl bindings to OpenSSL 1.x and 2.x; OpenSSL 3.x implementations are not vulnerable. An attacker who controls the password callback can read sensitive data from adjacent memory regions.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure OpenSSL
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via memory exhaustion in pypdf prior to 6.10.2 allows local attackers with user interaction to crash applications processing crafted PDF files containing FlateDecode-compressed images with inflated size values. The vulnerability exhausts available RAM during decompression, affecting any system using vulnerable pypdf versions to parse untrusted PDF documents.

Python Information Disclosure Red Hat +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via algorithmic complexity in pypdf versions prior to 6.10.2 allows local attackers to cause long runtimes by crafting a PDF with an excessively large trailer /Size value when loaded in incremental mode. The vulnerability requires user interaction to load the malicious PDF and results in availability degradation rather than data compromise. Patch version 6.10.2 is available from the vendor.

Python Information Disclosure Red Hat +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory exhaustion in pypdf prior to 6.10.2 allows local attackers to craft malicious PDF files that exhaust system RAM when processed. The vulnerability requires user interaction to open a specially crafted PDF containing a /FlateDecode stream with a /Predictor value other than 1 and large predictor parameters. Vendor-released patch available in version 6.10.2.

Python Information Disclosure Red Hat +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in pypdf prior to version 6.10.1 allows remote attackers to craft malicious PDF files with oversized cross-reference stream `/Size` values or object stream `/N` values, causing excessive processing time and long runtimes. No authentication is required; the vulnerability is triggered by parsing a specially crafted PDF file. Patch version 6.10.1 is available from the vendor.

Python Information Disclosure Red Hat +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Expression injection in Nuclei's template evaluation engine allows malicious HTTP servers to inject and execute DSL expressions via response data reused in multi-step templates. When the `-env-vars` flag is enabled (off by default), attackers can exfiltrate host environment variables including API keys and credentials; without this flag, injected expressions may trigger helper functions with limited security impact. Nuclei v3.8.0+ patches the vulnerability by collecting expressions from template source before placeholder substitution, preventing response-derived data from being reinterpreted as executable DSL syntax.

RCE Information Disclosure Code Injection +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Nuclei v3.7.0 and earlier allow JavaScript templates to read arbitrary `.js` and `.json` files from the host filesystem via the `require()` function, bypassing the `allow-local-file-access` restriction. This enables unauthenticated local attackers or users running untrusted templates to extract sensitive data from configuration files, credential stores, and cloud credentials. The vulnerability is limited to these two file types but can expose secrets in `package.json`, environment configs, and similar files commonly present on developer or server systems.

Authentication Bypass Information Disclosure Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Remote denial-of-service in OpenVPN server allows a low-privileged network attacker possessing a valid tls-crypt-v2 client key to crash the server daemon by sending a suitably malformed packet that passes cryptographic validation but triggers a fatal ASSERT() failure, terminating the server process and disconnecting all active VPN sessions. The vulnerability is limited to deployments with tls-crypt-v2 enabled and requires possession of a legitimate client key, constraining the attacker pool. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Information Disclosure Openvpn
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenVPN's TLS handshake race condition exposes confidential packet data from prior handshake sessions to authenticated remote attackers, affecting versions before 2.6.20 in the 2.6.x branch and before 2.7.2 in the 2.7.x branch. The CWE-125 out-of-bounds read flaw scores 6.1 under CVSS 4.0 with High confidentiality and availability impacts, though the AC:H (High Complexity) rating reflects that successful exploitation requires winning a narrow timing window, limiting opportunistic mass exploitation. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV; vendor-released patches for both stable branches were published April 22, 2026.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Openvpn
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW PATCH Monitor

CPython's http.cookies.Morsel.js_output() method generates inline script snippets that fail to neutralize the HTML parser-sensitive sequence </script>, allowing attackers with high privilege levels to inject arbitrary JavaScript by crafting malicious cookie values. While the method escapes double quotes for JavaScript string context, it does not prevent premature termination of the script element through </script> injection, resulting in limited information disclosure. The vendor has released patches addressing this inadequate escaping mechanism through base64-encoding of cookie values.

Information Disclosure Cpython Python Software Foundation
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Nimiq Core's history synchronization allows remote peers to trigger a panic in HistoryStore::put_historic_txns by submitting malformed transaction history with block numbers violating invariant constraints. During history sync, the panic occurs before validation checks compare the computed history root against the macro block header, causing affected nodes to crash. The CVSS score of 5.3 reflects high availability impact but requires user interaction and high attack complexity to exploit.

Information Disclosure
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Nimiq staking contract accepts UpdateValidator transactions that omit proof-of-knowledge validation when updating voting keys, enabling rogue-key attacks against BLS signature aggregation used in Tendermint block justification. An attacker who can predict the next epoch's validator set could forge quorum-appearing block justifications with a single signature. Exploitation is constrained by the requirement to predict future validator set composition via VRF, making real-world attacks unlikely despite the critical cryptographic impact. Vendor-released patch v1.3.0 addresses the vulnerability.

Information Disclosure Jwt Attack
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.2
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Notification data retention in Apple iOS and iPadOS exposes deleted notification content to local access due to insufficient log redaction. Devices running iOS/iPadOS prior to 18.7.8 or 26.4.2 retain notification payloads after user deletion, constituting a CWE-359 private information exposure. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), and SSVC assessment classifies exploitation as none - indicating low real-world threat velocity despite a CVSS confidentiality impact of High.

Information Disclosure Apple Ios And Ipados
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

Logic error in uutils coreutils cut utility causes incorrect behavior when combining the -s (only-delimited), -z (null-terminated), and -d '' (empty delimiter) flags, resulting in unfiltered records being emitted instead of suppressed. This breaks data integrity for automated pipelines relying on cut -s to exclude records without delimiters, affecting local users with limited privileges. The vulnerability has low exploitability (CVSS 3.3, SSVC indicates no exploitation status and non-automatable attack), but poses information disclosure and data corruption risks in security-sensitive data processing workflows.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Logic error in uutils coreutils cut utility causes incorrect interpretation of the literal two-byte string '' (two single quotes) as an empty delimiter, leading to silent data corruption when processing strings with these characters. The vulnerability affects uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.8.0 and impacts automated scripts and data pipelines that rely on precise delimiter handling, as the utility may unintentionally split or join data on NUL bytes rather than intended literal characters.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

uutils coreutils tr utility misdefines POSIX character classes [:graph:] and [:print:], incorrectly including ASCII space (0x20) in [:graph:] and excluding it from [:print:] - the opposite of standard behavior. This logic error causes unintended data modification or loss when tr is used in automated scripts or data pipelines that depend on correct character class semantics, such as deletion of graphical characters inadvertently removing all spaces and corrupting structured data. Affects coreutils versions prior to 0.8.0; patch is available from vendor.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

Logic error in uutils coreutils expr utility evaluates parenthesized subexpressions during parsing rather than execution, breaking short-circuit evaluation for logical OR and AND operations. This causes arithmetic errors in dead code branches (e.g., division by zero) to trigger fatal errors instead of being safely ignored, breaking shell script control flow and diverging from GNU expr compatibility. Affects uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.8.0; publicly available exploit code exists per SSVC data.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition in the chcon utility of uutils coreutils allows local attackers with directory write access to redirect recursive security label operations to unintended files or directories via symbolic link or rename races, potentially compromising SELinux security controls. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 0.8.0 and requires low privileges and high attack complexity to exploit, making it a moderate-severity issue with partial technical impact.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

The split utility in uutils coreutils corrupts output filenames when processing non-UTF-8 prefix or suffix inputs by converting invalid byte sequences to UTF-8 replacement characters, causing filename mismatches, collisions, and potential data misdirection. Affected versions prior to 0.8.0 on all platforms exhibit this behavior, which deviates from GNU split's byte-preservation semantics. Local authenticated users can trigger the vulnerability through crafted non-UTF-8 input, leading to integrity issues in automated workflows relying on predictable filename generation.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The split utility in uutils coreutils contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local attackers with directory write access to manipulate symbolic links between the initial path validation and file truncation, causing data loss to unintended target files including the input file or other sensitive files. CVSS 6.3 (local, high complexity, low privilege required); SSVC assesses as non-exploitable in automated attacks but partial technical impact due to manual race window exploitation requirements.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The ln utility in uutils coreutils fails to honor the --no-dereference flag when the --force flag is not simultaneously enabled, allowing local attackers with low privileges to redirect symbolic link operations into unintended directories. An attacker can manipulate existing symlinks to cause a privileged user or system script running ln -n to create files in sensitive directories, leading to unauthorized file creation or system misconfiguration. CVSS score of 5.0 reflects local attack vector and low complexity; SSVC framework indicates non-automatable exploitation with partial technical impact.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

The id utility in uutils coreutils displays incorrect effective user information in its pretty-print output when real and effective UIDs differ, using the effective GID instead of effective UID for name lookup. This causes misleading diagnostic output that could lead system administrators or automated scripts to make incorrect access control decisions, though impact is limited to information disclosure with no direct code execution or system compromise.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

The nohup utility in uutils coreutils creates its default output file with world-readable permissions (0644) instead of owner-only (0600), allowing any local user to read captured stdout/stderr and access potentially sensitive information in multi-user systems. This information disclosure vulnerability affects all versions of uutils coreutils and diverges from the secure permission model implemented in GNU coreutils.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The mv utility in uutils coreutils improperly expands symbolic links instead of preserving them during moves across filesystem boundaries, allowing local authenticated users to trigger resource exhaustion via disk space consumption, disclose sensitive data through unexpected file duplication, or cause denial of service through infinite symlink loop recursion. Affected versions prior to 0.7.0 are vulnerable; a vendor-released patch is available.

Denial Of Service Information Disclosure Coreutils +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM This Month

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the mv utility of uutils coreutils during cross-device move operations allows local attackers with write access to the destination directory to exploit a window between file deletion and recreation, injecting a symbolic link to redirect privileged write operations and overwrite arbitrary files. Exploitation requires moderate attack complexity and local access with limited privileges, but grants the ability to corrupt or modify files beyond the attacker's normal permissions. Publicly available exploit code exists but the vulnerability has not been confirmed in active exploitation.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM This Month

The touch utility in uutils coreutils suffers from a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local attackers with user-level privileges to truncate arbitrary files and cause permanent data loss. The vulnerability exists in the window between when touch checks for a missing file and when it attempts file creation with O_TRUNC flag; an attacker can inject a symlink or create a file at the target path during this interval, causing touch to truncate an existing file that the attacker controls. SSVC framework indicates exploitation is possible via proof-of-concept code, though automation is not feasible due to race condition complexity.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM This Month

Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in uutils coreutils cp utility allows local attackers with write access to bypass no-dereference protections and read arbitrary sensitive files. The cp command checks symbolic link status via metadata but opens files without O_NOFOLLOW, permitting race condition exploitation where an attacker swaps a regular file for a symbolic link between check and use, causing a privileged cp process to copy sensitive file contents to attacker-controlled destinations. Publicly available exploit code exists; SSVC framework indicates partial technical impact with non-automatable exploitation.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM This Month

The cp utility in uutils coreutils exposes sensitive file contents through a race condition where destination files are created with overly permissive umask-derived permissions before being restricted to their final restrictive mode. A local authenticated attacker can open the file during this narrow window to obtain a valid file descriptor that remains readable even after permissions are tightened, bypassing intended access controls. CVSS 4.7 with high confidentiality impact but limited exploitability due to high attack complexity and moderate SSVC rating.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Privilege escalation via symlink attack in uutils coreutils install utility when using the -D flag allows local attackers with write access to redirect privileged file writes to arbitrary locations. The vulnerability exploits a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition between parent directory creation and target file creation, neither anchored to a directory file descriptor. CISA reports no active exploitation (SSVC: none), but the attack is non-automatable and requires specific concurrent write access conditions.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition in uutils coreutils install utility allows local authenticated attackers to redirect privileged file writes to arbitrary system locations via symbolic link swapping. By exploiting the window between file unlinking and recreation, an attacker with local access and low privileges can overwrite critical system files when the install command runs with elevated privileges, achieving both integrity compromise and denial of service.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM This Month

Time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in uutils coreutils mv utility during cross-device file moves allows local attackers with directory write access to manipulate extended attributes (xattrs) on destination files by swapping files between sequential path-based system calls, potentially causing security labels like SELinux attributes or file capabilities to be applied inconsistently. CVSS 4.7 (local, high complexity) with confirmed vulnerability reported by Canonical; CISA SSVC assessment indicates non-automatable exploitation with partial technical impact.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.2
MEDIUM This Month

The mv utility in uutils coreutils fails to preserve file ownership when moving files across filesystem boundaries, causing moved files to be reassigned to the caller's UID/GID instead of retaining the source file's ownership metadata. When invoked by privileged users (such as root), this results in unexpected ownership changes that can lead to information disclosure or access restrictions for legitimate file owners. Exploitation requires local access and high privileges; a public proof-of-concept exists but active exploitation has not been confirmed in the wild.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM This Month

The cp utility in uutils coreutils improperly preserves setuid and setgid bits when the chown operation fails during file copying with the -p flag, potentially creating unprivileged user-owned files that retain elevated privilege bits and violate security policies. This behavior diverges from GNU cp, which strips these bits when ownership preservation fails. Local users with write access to directories can exploit this to create unexpected privileged executables.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The comm utility in uutils coreutils drains FIFO and pipe streams before performing file comparison due to premature data consumption in the are_files_identical function, causing silent data loss and potential indefinite hangs on infinite streams. Local authenticated users can trigger this vulnerability to corrupt or lose data in piped workflows, affecting the integrity of command-line data processing chains.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts binary and non-UTF-8 encoded file output by replacing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD), diverging from GNU comm's byte-preserving behavior. This affects any user comparing files with legacy encodings or binary content, resulting in data integrity loss. A proof-of-concept demonstrating the lossy conversion exists, and a patch is available.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

The tail utility in uutils coreutils discloses sensitive file contents through improper symlink handling when using the --follow=name option. Unlike GNU tail, uutils continues monitoring a file path after it has been replaced with a symbolic link, causing it to output the contents of the link's target. A local attacker with write access to a monitored directory can exploit this to exfiltrate sensitive system files such as /etc/shadow when a privileged user (e.g., root) runs tail in follow mode. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the vulnerability requires local access and specific deployment conditions (privileged tail process monitoring user-writable directories).

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Silent data corruption in uutils coreutils dd utility results from unconditionally suppressing truncation errors on regular files and directories, allowing backup and migration scripts to report successful operations while destination files contain old or corrupted data when disk space is exhausted or file systems are read-only.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

The cut utility in uutils coreutils fails to suppress non-delimited lines when the -s (only-delimited) option is used with a newline character as the delimiter, causing unfiltered data to be passed to downstream processes. Affected versions prior to 0.8.0 exhibit this logic error, which has low real-world impact due to local-only attack vector and partial technical scope, though it violates strict data filtering contracts that scripts may depend upon.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

mktemp utility in uutils coreutils mishandles empty TMPDIR environment variables by creating temporary files in the current working directory instead of falling back to /tmp, potentially exposing sensitive data if the CWD has overly permissive access controls. Affects uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.6.0 and requires local attacker with limited privileges to manipulate the environment or exploit overly accessible working directories; CVSS 3.3 reflects low severity (local access, limited confidentiality impact) despite information disclosure risk.

Authentication Bypass Information Disclosure Coreutils +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

uutils coreutils chown and chgrp utilities return incorrect exit codes during recursive directory operations, masking ownership change failures and allowing administrative scripts to incorrectly assume successful permission transfers. When processing multiple files recursively, the final exit code reflects only the last file's result; if that file succeeds, the command returns 0 even if earlier operations failed due to permission errors. This integrity flaw affects local users with limited privileges on systems running affected versions below 0.6.0, creating risk of security misconfigurations in automated deployment and configuration management scripts.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The chmod utility in uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.6.0 incorrectly reports success (exit code 0) when recursively processing multiple files, even if permission changes fail on earlier files due to access restrictions or other errors. This causes scripts and automation to proceed under a false assumption that all files were modified correctly, potentially leaving sensitive files with unintended or restrictive permissions.

Information Disclosure Coreutils Uutils
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

GitLab CE/EE versions 18.2 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 allow authenticated users to access Virtual Registries using invalidated or incorrectly scoped credentials under certain conditions, resulting in unauthorized information disclosure and modification. The vulnerability requires valid user credentials and network access but no user interaction, affecting confidentiality and integrity with partial technical impact per SSVC. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Gitlab
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory corruption in GNU Emacs SVG/CSS processing allows local attackers to trigger denial of service or information disclosure by convincing users to open specially crafted SVG files. The vulnerability requires user interaction (file opening) and local access, but results in significant impact including service disruption and potential data leakage through memory corruption exploitation.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PowerDNS Authoritative server allows authenticated REST API operators to inject malformed HTTPS or SVCB record data, corrupting the LMDB backend database and causing service degradation or denial of availability. The vulnerability requires high-privilege REST API access and affects deployments using LMDB as the backend storage engine, with confirmed impact on data integrity and availability.

Information Disclosure Integer Overflow Powerdns +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Incomplete LDAP query escaping in PowerDNS Authoritative with 8bit-dns enabled allows authenticated users to enumerate internal domain subtrees through LDAP injection, leading to information disclosure of sensitive DNS zone data. The vulnerability requires valid authentication, high attack complexity due to LDAP protocol constraints, and has been reported by the vendor security team. No active exploitation data is currently available.

Information Disclosure LDAP Code Injection +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.1
LOW PATCH Monitor

dnsdist's Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) upgrade mechanism allows a rogue backend to send a crafted SVCB response that causes a denial of service via availability impact when DDR is explicitly enabled through the autoUpgrade (Lua) or auto_upgrade (YAML) configuration options. The vulnerability requires adjacent network access and high complexity exploitation conditions, affecting only deployments that have manually enabled DDR functionality-a non-default configuration.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Dnsdist +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Out-of-bounds memory read in dnsdist allows remote attackers to trigger information disclosure or denial of service when custom Lua code invokes getDomainListByAddress() or getAddressListByDomain() functions on a crafted packet cache entry. The vulnerability requires network access but has high attack complexity, limiting real-world exploitation despite the remote attack vector.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Suse +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.1
LOW PATCH Monitor

dnsdist can experience a denial-of-service condition through query-response mismatching when a client sends precisely timed floods of queries routed to TCP-only or DNS over TLS backends. An adjacent network attacker with high timing precision can cause limited availability impact by desynchronizing the query-response correlation on affected backends, though exploitation requires favorable network conditions and careful query timing. This issue carries a low CVSS score (3.1) reflecting the high attack complexity and adjacency requirement.

Information Disclosure Integer Overflow Dnsdist +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory leak in Linux kernel CXL region initialization allows local privileged attackers to cause denial of service through resource exhaustion. The vulnerability exists in the __construct_region() function where failed sysfs_update_group() calls fail to properly free allocated resources, resulting in cumulative memory exhaustion when region construction is repeatedly attempted and fails. CVSS 5.5 reflects local attack vector with low complexity and high availability impact; EPSS 0.02% indicates minimal real-world exploitation probability despite the vulnerability's severity classification.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Linux kernel BPF verifier fails to validate lock release on exception exits from static subprograms when bpf_throw() is invoked, potentially allowing denial of service or system instability through uncontrolled RCU and preemption lock retention. Affected versions span from 6.7 through 7.0-rc4; CVSS 5.5 (local privilege escalation path) but EPSS 0.02% suggests low real-world exploitation probability. Patch available in stable releases 6.18.21, 6.19.11, and 7.0.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Double completions in NVMe-PCI polled queue handling occur when a high-priority task attempts to poll a queue during kernel reset before block layer queue maps are updated, causing race conditions between interrupt-driven and polled I/O paths. Affects Linux kernel versions before 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.168, 6.6.131, 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, and 7.0-rc2, requiring local authentication and high attack complexity to trigger. No public exploit identified, but vendor-released patches are available across all affected stable and development branches.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory leak in the HID magicmouse driver's report_fixup() function allows local authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service through repeated device interactions. The magicmouse_report_fixup() function allocates memory via kmemdup() but fails to free the allocated buffer before returning, leading to exhaustion of kernel memory on systems with a Magic Mouse connected. Vendor patches are available across multiple stable branches.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory leak in the Linux kernel HID Apple driver causes gradual kernel memory exhaustion on systems connected to Apple HID peripherals. The `apple_report_fixup()` function in `drivers/hid/hid-apple.c` allocates a new buffer via `kmemdup()` each time an Apple device descriptor is processed, but the HID core caller never frees it because the API contract only guarantees lifetime management for pointers returned into the original descriptor buffer. Patches are available across all actively maintained stable branches (6.1, 6.6, 6.12, 6.18, 6.19, 7.0); no active exploitation has been confirmed and EPSS stands at 0.02%.

Information Disclosure Linux Apple
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Memory leak in Linux kernel ESP-over-TCP implementation with asynchronous cryptography causes denial of service via socket queue exhaustion when crypto operations complete asynchronously. Authenticated local attackers can trigger the vulnerability by filling the TX queue for espintcp connections while using async crypto algorithms, preventing proper cleanup of socket buffers and gradually consuming system memory until services become unavailable. EPSS score of 0.02% indicates low real-world exploitation probability despite moderate CVSS severity.

Information Disclosure Linux
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via kernel panic in the Linux kernel xfrm_iptfs module when processing fragmented IP-TFS packets with mixed fast-path and slow-path reassembly conditions. The vulnerability triggers an invalid memory access (SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT) in skb_put() when attempting to append data to a non-linear socket buffer during packet reassembly, affecting systems using IP-TFS encapsulation over IPsec. Local attackers with network access to send crafted IPsec packets can crash the kernel; active exploitation not confirmed but patch is available.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Short read handling in EROFS file-backed mounts can mark unread file pages as uptodate when vfs_iocb_iter_read() is interrupted by signals, leading to potential data corruption or information disclosure on systems using EROFS with file-backed mounts. Affected Linux kernel versions prior to fixes in 6.18.21, 6.19.11, and 6.12.80. Local authenticated users can trigger this via signal interruption during I/O operations.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via buffer over-read in Linux kernel Bluetooth L2CAP Enhanced Credit Based Flow Control data path allows local authenticated attackers to crash the system by sending malformed L2CAP packets with insufficient payload length. The vulnerability exists in l2cap_ecred_data_rcv() which reads the SDU length field without validating that the socket buffer contains the required 2 bytes, causing an out-of-bounds read that triggers a kernel panic when the buffer is too small. EPSS exploitation probability is 0.02% (percentile 7%), and a vendor patch is available.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via deadlock in NFC NCI subsystem when nci_close_device() flushes work queues while holding req_lock, triggering a circular lock dependency with nci_rx_work(). The vulnerability affects Linux kernels across multiple stable branches (5.10, 5.15, 6.1, 6.6, 6.12, 6.18, 6.19, 7.0) and was reproduced in roughly 4% of nci selftest runs on debug kernels, though EPSS scoring (0.02% percentile 7%) indicates low baseline exploitation probability. Local privilege requirement and high attack complexity in practice mean real-world impact is limited to NFC-capable systems with specific workload timing.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Linux kernel UDP socket binding fails to properly detect wildcard address conflicts when hash table collision count exceeds 10, allowing a socket to bind to a wildcard address (such as [::]:8888 or 0.0.0.0:8888) even when specific addresses on that port are already in use. This denial-of-service vulnerability affects local authenticated users who can create UDP sockets, bypassing port conflict checks that should prevent duplicate bindings. The issue stems from improper hash table selection logic in UDP's bind path, which switches from a port-only hash to an address-port hash at a threshold, creating a window where wildcard bindings are incorrectly permitted.

Information Disclosure Linux
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A deadlock condition in Linux kernel Bluetooth L2CAP connection deletion allows local authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by causing the l2cap_conn_del() function to deadlock when canceling delayed work timers while holding the connection lock. The vulnerability affects multiple Linux kernel versions across the 6.x and 7.0 release branches and has been resolved through upstream patch commits that reorganize lock acquisition and work cancellation order.

Information Disclosure Linux
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Out-of-bounds array access in the btusb driver's Bluetooth SCO link handling allows local authenticated attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting kernel memory or crashing the Bluetooth subsystem. The btusb_work() function fails to constrain the sco_num variable before indexing a three-entry lookup table, permitting reads and potential writes past allocated buffer boundaries when four or more SCO links are active. This affects Linux kernel versions 5.8 through 7.0-rc2 and requires local access with unprivileged user privileges to trigger.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Information disclosure in Linux kernel netfilter nf_conntrack_expect proc interface allows local authenticated users to read connection tracking expectations from other network namespaces, bypassing namespace isolation. The vulnerability affects kernel versions through 6.x and 7.0-rc releases with CVSS 5.5 (local, low complexity, high availability impact) and EPSS 0.02% exploitation probability; vendor-released patches are available for multiple stable branches (6.1.168, 6.6.131, 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11, 7.0).

Information Disclosure Linux
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Linux kernel netfilter ctnetlink subsystem allows local authenticated attackers to trigger undefined behavior via improper validation of TCP window scale and connection tracking state parameters. The vulnerability stems from missing netlink policy range checks that permit out-of-bounds values (TCP window scale 0-255 instead of clamped 0-14, TCP state values exceeding TCP_CONNTRACK_MAX) to be passed to kernel code expecting constrained ranges, leading to undefined behavior in shift operations and state machine logic. CVSS 5.5 (local, low complexity, requires low privileges) with EPSS 0.03% indicates low real-world exploitation likelihood despite availability of vendor patches.

Information Disclosure Linux
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Use-after-free in Linux kernel RDMA/irdma driver allows local authenticated users to cause denial of service by triggering uninitialized completion handling during queue pair creation failure. When ib_copy_to_udata fails in irdma_create_qp, the cleanup path attempts to wait on an uninitialized free_qp completion structure, resulting in a kernel panic or system hang. EPSS score of 0.02% indicates low exploitation probability despite moderate CVSS score; patch is available from vendor.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel SPI subsystem allows local authenticated attackers to cause denial of service by exploiting unsynchronized access to the driver_override field during device probe operations. The vulnerability occurs because __driver_attach() calls the bus match() callback without holding the device lock, creating a race condition when driver_override is accessed without proper synchronization. CVSS score of 5.5 reflects local attack vector with low complexity and high availability impact. EPSS exploitation probability is minimal at 0.02%, suggesting this is a localized memory safety issue rather than a widely-exploited attack vector.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Linux kernel on s390 architecture allows local authenticated attackers to crash the system by triggering an out-of-bounds access in the syscall dispatch table. The s390 syscall number is directly controlled by userspace without spectre boundary protection (array_index_nospec), enabling an attacker with local user privileges to supply an invalid syscall number that bypasses array bounds checking and causes a memory access violation. EPSS score is extremely low (0.03%), consistent with limited attack surface on s390-specific systems and requirement for local authentication.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Information disclosure in Linux kernel s390 architecture allows local authenticated attackers to read residual data from r12 register during kernel entry transitions, enabling potential exposure of sensitive kernel state through register side channels. This occurs on s390 systems running kernel versions 6.4 through 7.0-rc5 and affects all architectures due to incomplete register scrubbing following removal of branch prediction isolation code. EPSS score of 0.02% indicates minimal real-world exploitation likelihood despite moderate CVSS impact rating.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service via deadlock in the Linux kernel tracing subsystem occurs when CPU hotplug operations interact with osnoise tracing thread lifecycle management. A local privileged user can trigger a deadlock by inducing CPU offline events while osnoise threads hold conflicting locks (interface_lock and cpus_read_lock), causing system hang. CVSS 5.5 reflects local attack vector and privilege requirement; EPSS 0.02% indicates low real-world exploitation likelihood despite deadlock severity.

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
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