Centos vulnerabilities1 known to be exploited.

Vendor1 known exploited
The short answer

Centos has 8 published vulnerabilities across 2 products in our catalogue. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Centos, with 7. If you run Centos software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Centos flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2017-1000253, on 9 September 2024. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Centos products have the most vulnerabilities?

Centos leads with 7 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Centos7
  2. Stream1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Centos vulnerabilities are being exploited?

1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 7.8
    CVE-2017-1000253HighKnown exploited
    Linux Kernel PIE Stack Buffer Corruption Vulnerability

    Linux kernel contains a position-independent executable (PIE) stack buffer corruption vulnerability in load_elf_ binary() that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges.

    Chance of use11%Known exploited since9 Sep 2024
Exploit likelihood

Which Centos flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 11%
    CVE-2017-1000253HighKnown exploited

    Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 (committed on April 14, 2015).

    CVSS7.8Published5 Oct 2017
  2. 8.0%

    cyrus-sasl (aka Cyrus SASL) 2.1.27 has an out-of-bounds write leading to unauthenticated remote denial-of-service in OpenLDAP via a malformed LDAP packet.

    CVSS7.5Published19 Dec 2019
  3. 1.3%

    SQL Injection vulnerability discovered in Unified Office Total Connect Now that would allow an attacker to extract sensitive information through a cookie parameter.

    CVSS7.5Published3 Feb 2022
  4. 0.9%

    Bubblewrap (bwrap) before version 0.4.1, if installed in setuid mode and the kernel supports unprivileged user namespaces, then the `bwrap --userns2` option can be used to make the setuid process keep running as root...

    CVSS7.8Published31 Mar 2020
  5. 0.7%

    Linux deployments of StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) versions 11.6.0 through 11.6.0.2 deployed with a Linux kernel version less than 4.7.0 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow a remote...

    CVSS6.5Published10 Aug 2022
  6. 0.4%

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Fedora install the Bind /etc/rndc.key file with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to perform unauthorized named commands, such as causing a denial of service by...

    CVSS4.9Published18 Dec 2007
  7. 0.2%

    A locking protection bypass flaw was found in some versions of gnome-shell as shipped within CentOS Stream 8, when the "Application menu" or "Window list" GNOME extensions are enabled.

    CVSS6.1Published18 Feb 2022
Every product

All Centos products we track.

2 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 8 published vulnerabilities across 2 products and 30 versions from Centos. The most recent Centos flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2017-1000253, on 9 September 2024.

1 Centos vulnerability is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2017-1000253. The full list is on this page.

Centos, with 7 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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