Is CVE-2020-7460 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-7460 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-7460?

CVE-2020-7460 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-7460?

CVE-2020-7460 has an EPSS score of 0.72% (49th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix or mitigate CVE-2020-7460?

No published fix for CVE-2020-7460 has been found yet. Check the linked vendor advisories for guidance as it becomes available.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-7460

HIGH

7.0

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation.

CWE-367TOCTOU Race Condition

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityHigh

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.72%probability of exploitation in 30 days

49thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 49% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

security.freebsd.org

Third-Party Advisory2

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.