Medium severity · published Sep 13, 2023
CVE-2023-4155
Sev-es / sev-snp vmgexit double fetch vulnerability
5.6
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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`).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor, NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
37; 38 · source: vendor, NVD
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4155
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4155
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4155
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213802
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