VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-27671
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM and PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (data corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because coalescing of per-page IOMMU TLB flushes is mishandled.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.34%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM and PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (data corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because coalescing of per-page IOMMU TLB flushes is mishandled.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.34% probability · 27th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- xen/xen · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-346.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-346.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-346.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-346.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.