CVE-2020-25578

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

2.31% (83rd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the d_off field of the dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. In particular, tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5) and mqueuefs(5) were failing to do so. As a result, eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes may be leaked to userspace by these file systems.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.15mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-665USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

farazsth98/freebsd-dirent-info-leak-bugsCVE-2020-25578 and CVE-2020-25579: Some FreeBSD info leak bugs I found in 2020.PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a FreeBSD≤ FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13, 11.4-RELEASE before p7enisa_euvdEU
freebsd freebsd= 11.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 12.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 12.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-03-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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