vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-24394

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 19, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.7.8, fs/nfsd/vfs.c (in the NFS server) can set incorrect permissions on new filesystem objects when the filesystem lacks ACL support, aka CID-22cf8419f131. This occurs because the current umask is not considered.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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