CVE detail

CVE-2020-35508 — CVE-2020-35508

Published 2021-03-26 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

4.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0022

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

13.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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