CVE-2020-25645 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Info in Kernel
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 13
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Traffic between two Geneve endpoints may be unencrypted when IPsec is configured to encrypt traffic for the specific UDP port used by the GENEVE tunnel allowing anyone between the two endpoints to read the traffic unencrypted. The main threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04