CVE-2020-7460

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.007 · 53 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.69% (53rd) EPSS

CVSS 4.4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation.

cvss

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

7.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.4–7

v2.04.4mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 6.4

v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 5.9

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-367USprimary

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a FreeBSD≤ FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, 11.3-RELEASE before p12enisa_euvdEU
freebsd freebsd= 11.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 11.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 12.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-08-06modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

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