CVE-2020-14304

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-09-15 · updated 2026-10-07
Weakness: CWE-460

Description

A memory disclosure flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ethernet drivers, in the way it read data from the EEPROM of the device. This flaw allows a local user to read uninitialized values from the kernel memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 4.9.210-1, 4.19.118-2, 5.6.7-1

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14304
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14304

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