VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-1010066
The impact is: An attacker could modify model specific registers.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.34%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory msr-safe v1.1.0 is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: An attacker could modify model specific registers. The component is: ioctl handling. The attack vector is: An attacker could exploit a bug in ioctl interface whitelist checking, in order to write to model specific registers, normally a function reserved for the root user. The fixed version is: v1.2.0.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.34% probability · 70th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269, CWE-862
- Affected
- llnl/model specific registers-safe
- Source
- josh@bress.net
References
- https://github.com/LLNL/msr-safe/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/x856.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/LLNL/msr-safe/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/x856.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.