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CVE-2020-16166
The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal…
Low3.7EPSS 5.2%
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- mitre
Description
The Linux kernel through 5.7.11 allows remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.4% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-8d634e31c0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-2cd6393548 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1236 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-4526-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-4525-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07432.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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