Vulnerability in FreeBSD

CVE-2020-25579

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.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2020-25579: held from 0.011 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • FreeBSD — versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
  • FreeBSD — versions FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13, 11.4-RELEASE before p7

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-25579?
CVE-2020-25579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in FreeBSD, classified under CWE-909. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2021-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2020-25579?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-25579 known to be exploited?
3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.