CVE-2020-26088: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.8.2 (fixed in 5.8.2)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.