What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8938: Arbitrary enclave memory location write from untrusted environment

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in Asylo versions up to 0.6.0 allows an attacker to make a host call to FromkLinuxSockAddr with attacker controlled content and size of klinux_addr which allows an attacker to write memory values from within the enclave. We recommend upgrading past commit a37fb6a0e7daf30134dbbf357c9a518a1026aa02

Affected products

• Google LLC Asylo: through 0.6.0

References

• https://github.com/google/asylo/commit/bda9772e7872b0d2b9bee32930cf7a4983837b39
• https://github.com/google/asylo/commit/bda9772e7872b0d2b9bee32930cf7a4983837b39

Get alerted when CVE-2020-8938 or the next vulnerability affects your stack