CVE-2018-20168 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Google gVisor before 2018-08-22 reuses a pagetable in a different level with the paging-structure cache intact, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service ("physical address not valid" panic) via a crafted application.

Published: 2018-12-17

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:gvisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-12736	Google gVisor before 2018-08-22 reuses a pagetable in a different level with the paging-structure cache intact, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service ("physical address not valid" panic) via a crafted application.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0005.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1674

History

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Subscriptions

Google Gvisor

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-12-17T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:51:19.347Z

Reserved: 2018-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-20168

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-17T05:29:01.563

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:00:59.870

Link: CVE-2018-20168

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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