CVE-2020-15687

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15687
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-31 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-08 19:20:00 UTC
DescriptionMissing access control restrictions in the Hypervisor component of the ACRN Project (v2.0 and v1.6.1) allow a malicious entity, with root access in the Service VM userspace, to abuse the PCIe assign/de-assign Hypercalls via crafted ioctls and payloads. This attack results in a corrupt state and Denial of Service (DoS) for previously assigned PCIe devices to the Service VM at runtime.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linuxfoundation Acrn 1.6.1 All All All
Operating System Linuxfoundation Acrn 2.0 All All All
Operating System Linuxfoundation Acrn 1.6.1 All All All
Operating System Linuxfoundation Acrn 2.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory — Project ACRN™ v 2.1-unstable documentation MISC projectacrn.github.io Third Party Advisory
Split Device Model — Project ACRN™ v 2.1-unstable documentation MISC projectacrn.github.io Third Party Advisory
Project ACRN documentation — Project ACRN™ v 2.1-unstable documentation MISC projectacrn.github.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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