CVE-2020-25579
MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: March 26, 2021 at 08:44 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:06 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD
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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 msdosfs(5) was failing to zero-fill a pair of padding fields in the dirent structure, resulting in a leak of three uninitialized bytes.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-21:01.fsdisclosure.ascx_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210423-0002/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-909
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