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CVE-2021-27363
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2021-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. A kernel pointer leak can be used to determine the address of the iscsi_transport structure. When an iSCSI transport is registered with the iSCSI subsystem, the transport's handle is available to unprivileged users via the sysfs file system, at /sys/class/iscsi_transport/$TRANSPORT_NAME/handle. When read, the show_transport_handle function (in drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) is called, which leaks the handle. This handle is actually the pointer to an iscsi_transport struct in the kernel module's global variables.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 9.0
- Linux kernel: through 5.11.3
- NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
- NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: all versions
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/06/1
- https://blog.grimm-co.com/2021/03/new-old-bugs-in-linux-kernel.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182716
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=688e8128b7a92df982709a4137ea4588d16f24aa
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210409-0001/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/06/1
- https://blog.grimm-co.com/2021/03/new-old-bugs-in-linux-kernel.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182716
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