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CVE-2021-26708

HIGH · CVSS 7 EPSS 1.60%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-02-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.0. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2021-26708
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7
EPSS
1.60%
Linux

Original NVD Description

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.

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