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Vulnerability Details CVE-2019-3901

A race condition in perf_event_open() allows local attackers to leak sensitive data from setuid programs. As no relevant locks (in particular the cred_guard_mutex) are held during the ptrace_may_access() call, it is possible for the specified target task to perform an execve() syscall with setuid execution before perf_event_alloc() actually attaches to it, allowing an attacker to bypass the ptrace_may_access() check and the perf_event_exit_task(current) call that is performed in install_exec_creds() during privileged execve() calls. This issue affects kernel versions before 4.8.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 23.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.6
CVSS v2 Score 1.9
Products affected by CVE-2019-3901


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