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CVE-2020-10725

HIGH
Published 2020-05-20T13:16:55
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.7
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.007
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.7% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.706
Higher than 70.6% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

[UNKNOWN]

dpdk

Affected Versions:

20.02.1 19.11.2

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE

GHSA-rccg-5mcc-m2cf

Advisory Details

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10725
WEB https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725
WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HRHKFVV4MRWNNJOYQOVP64L4UVWYPEO4
WEB https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 24, 2022, Modified: September 3, 2022

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRHKFVV4MRWNNJOYQOVP64L4UVWYPEO4/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270
Published: 2020-05-20T13:16:55
Last Modified: 2024-08-04T11:14:14.236Z
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