CVE-2019-19241

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, the io_uring feature leads to requests that inadvertently have UID 0 and full capabilities, aka CID-181e448d8709. This is related to fs/io-wq.c, fs/io_uring.c, and net/socket.c. For example, an attacker can bypass intended restrictions on adding an IPv4 address to the loopback interface. This occurs because IORING_OP_SENDMSG operations, although requested in the context of an unprivileged user, are sometimes performed by a kernel worker thread without considering that context.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19241

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed5.3.15-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.3.15-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.3.15-1
debian debiansidfixed5.3.15-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.3.15-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.