High severity · published Feb 18, 2022
CVE-2021-4093
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES)
8.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). A KVM guest using SEV-ES can trigger out-of-bounds reads and writes in the host kernel via a malicious VMGEXIT for a string I/O instruction (for example, outs or ins) using the exit reason SVM_EXIT_IOIO. This issue results in a crash of the entire system or a potential guest-to-host escape scenario.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
5.11 before 5.14.16 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
20.04; 21.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4093
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4093
Exploit
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2222
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028584
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