CVE-2020-25645: kernel

Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in kernel

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.024 · 84th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 13 Oct 2020, 19:52 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	kernel	affected Linux kernel versions before 5.9-rc7

Identifiers

CVE-2020-25645

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-319

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.024, the 84th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 13 Oct 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883988
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00035.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00042.html vendor-advisorysuse
www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4774 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00028.html mailing-listmlist
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201103-0004/ confirm
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html mailing-listmlist
packetstormsecurity.com/files/161229/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0074-1.html

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.