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CVE-2020-2732
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is…
Medium5.8EPSS 0.93%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- oracle
Description
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.93% · top 39% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
- Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Linux server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in authorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Linux Server.
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
Oracle Corporation · Oracle Linux
- affected 7
- affected 6
References (14)
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg208259.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/07721feee46b4b248402133228235318199b05ec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/35a571346a94fb93b5b3b6a599675ef3384bc75c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/e71237d3ff1abf9f3388337cfebf53b96df2020d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805135 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5540.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5542.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5543.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4667 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200609 [SECURITY] [DLA 2241-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200610 [SECURITY] [DLA 2242-1] linux-4.9 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200610 [SECURITY] [DLA 2241-2] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4698 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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