CVE-2024-32668CWE-193CWE-787

bhyve(8) privileged guest escape via USB controller

High · published September 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An insufficient boundary validation in the USB code could lead to an out-of-bounds write on the heap, with data controlled by the caller.

A malicious, privileged software running in a guest VM can exploit the vulnerability to achieve code execution on the host in the bhyve userspace process, which typically runs as root. Note that bhyve runs in a Capsicum sandbox, so malicious code is constrained by the capabilities available to the bhyve process.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00213 · 11.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-193 · Off-by-one Error; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2024-09-05T04:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 04:42Z
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