CVE-2020-35501

At a glance

Severity: LOW 3.4
EPSS: EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-03-30
Updated: 2026-10-07
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of audit rules, where a syscall can unexpectedly not be correctly not be logged by the audit subsystem

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	LOW 3.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-863

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2020-23170
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-35501

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0326 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0316 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 5.17
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
kernel	affected affecting all versions up to kernel 5.17

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908577

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD