CVE-2021-45464

Published Apr 15, 2023

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description: kvmtool through 39181fc allows an out-of-bounds write, related to virtio/balloon.c and virtio/pci.c. This allows a guest OS user to execute arbitrary code on the host machine.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 8.8
Impact score: 6
Exploitability score: 2
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:kvmtool_project:kvmtool:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "7F8FD9B8-E213-4879-A607-2BE1A091FCAB"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References