Red Hat Discovery
By the Year
In 2020 there have been 1 vulnerability in Red Hat Discovery with an average score of 7.8 out of ten. Last year Discovery had 0 security vulnerabilities published. That is, 1 more vulnerability have already been reported in 2020 as compared to last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 7.80 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
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Latest Red Hat Discovery Security Vulnerabilities
A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1
CVE-2020-1712
7.8 - High
- March 31, 2020
A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending specially crafted dbus messages.
CVE-2020-1712 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privledges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Dangling pointer