CVE-2018-10853
An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.47% probability · 40th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-250, CWE-269
- Affected
- canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux · linux/linux kernel
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.