CVE-2020-26088 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2020-26088?

CVE-2020-26088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Sep 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-26088?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-26088?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-26088 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-26088 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26088, GHSA-mv8q-jr3c-hxp6, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26088.