CVE-2023-4155CWE-367

Sev-es / sev-snp vmgexit double fetch vulnerability

Medium · published September 13, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest using SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs can trigger a double fetch race condition vulnerability and invoke the `VMGEXIT` handler recursively. If an attacker manages to call the handler multiple times, they can trigger a stack overflow and cause a denial of service or potentially guest-to-host escape in kernel configurations without stack guard pages (`CONFIG_VMAP_STACK`).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00169 · 6.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Published
2023-09-13T16:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 16:11Z
    Sev-es / sev-snp vmgexit double fetch vulnerability
    cvelistv5