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CVE-2020-2732

Public on 2020-03-23
Modified on 2020-05-08
Description

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for the L2 guest when nested(=1) virtualization is enabled. In the instruction emulation, the L2 guest could trick the L0 hypervisor into accessing sensitive bits of the L1 hypervisor. An L2 guest could use this flaw to potentially access information of the L1 hypervisor.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-04-20 19:25 ALAS-2020-1360
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-03-23 16:25 ALAS2-2020-1405

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.3 AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N