CVE-2021-3656 (GCVE-0-2021-3656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-04 18:41 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
VLAI
Summary
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the "virt_ext" field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to disable both VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts and VLS (Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 978 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a KVM Affected: Fixed-In v5.14-rc7 and above
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