CVE-2020-27674

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-10-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by modifying kernel memory contents, because invalidation of TLB entries is mishandled during use of an INVLPG-like attack technique.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32, 33
xen: through 4.14.0

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/5
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PZAM3LYJ5TZLSSNL3KXFILM46QKVTOUA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3U4LNKKXU4UP4Z5XP6TMIWSML3QODPE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-286.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/5
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PZAM3LYJ5TZLSSNL3KXFILM46QKVTOUA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3U4LNKKXU4UP4Z5XP6TMIWSML3QODPE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06

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