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CVE-2019-20172

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.47% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-12-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2019-20172
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.47%

Original NVD Description

Kernel/VM/MemoryManager.cpp in SerenityOS before 2019-12-30 does not reject syscalls with pointers into the kernel-only virtual address space, which allows local users to gain privileges by overwriting a return address that was found on the kernel stack.