VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-14625

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A race condition between connect() and close() function may allow an attacker using the AF_VSOCK protocol to gather a 4 byte information leak or possibly intercept or corrupt AF_VSOCK messages destined to other clients.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-416
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-362

Primary references