CVE-2020-27821
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6)—
A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.36%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 28
- Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- CWE-787
- CWE-787
Referencias
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0006/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902651
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210115-0006/
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