CVE-2020-28588

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

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the /proc/pid/syscall functionality of Linux Kernel 5.1 Stable and 5.4.66. More specifically, this issue has been introduced in v5.1-rc4 (commit 631b7abacd02b88f4b0795c08b54ad4fc3e7c7c0) and is still present in v5.10-rc4, so it’s likely that all versions in between are affected. An attacker can read /proc/pid/syscall to trigger this vulnerability, which leads to the kernel leaking memory contents.

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-2020-28588

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28588.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.9.15-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.9.15-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.9.15-1
debian debiansidfixed5.9.15-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.9.15-1

References

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