What is CVE-2020-27784?

CVE-2020-27784 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10. CVE-2020-27784 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2020-27784?

CVE-2020-27784 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2020-27784?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2020-27784. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.

Is CVE-2020-27784 actively exploited?

CVE-2020-27784 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2020-27784

Medium

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, where accessing a deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access of a printer_dev instance. However, use-after-free arises because it had been freed by gprinter_free().

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2022-09-01

Last modified 2024-11-21

CVSS version 3.1

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 3.1 score

5.5

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Vector string

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

Weakness type

CWE-201

CVE-2020-27784 is classified as CWE-201

See CWE-201 on MITRE CWE for full details on this weakness type.

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2020-27784 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e8d5f92b8d30bb4ade76494490c3c065e12411b1
Patch

Details

CVE ID CVE-2020-27784

Severity Medium

CVSS score 5.5 / 10

CVSS version 3.1

Published 2022-09-01

Modified 2024-11-21

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-27784?

CVE-2020-27784 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10 . CVE-2020-27784 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2020-27784?

CVE-2020-27784 has a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 3.1). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2020-27784?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2020-27784. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.
Is CVE-2020-27784 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2020-27784 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.