PT-2021-23017
CVE-2021-4093
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Published
2021-11-03
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Updated
2026-10-18
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.2
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
KVM (affected versions not specified)
Description
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES). A KVM guest using SEV-ES can trigger out-of-bounds reads and writes in the host kernel via a malicious VMGEXIT for a string I/O instruction (for example, outs or ins) using the exit reason
SVM EXIT IOIO. This issue results in a crash of the entire system or a potential guest-to-host escape scenario.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Exploit
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