CVE-2019-20172

HIGH

Serenityos < 2019-12-30 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 32.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
serenityos/serenityos < 2019-12-30
Published Dec 31, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026