CVE-2023-4155 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-4155: Sev-es / sev-snp vmgexit double fetch vulnerability

Vendor N/A
Product kernel
Weakness CWE-367
Published September 13, 2023
Last update February 27, 2025

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in KVM AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest using SEV-ES or SEV-SNP with multiple vCPUs can trigger a double fetch race condition vulnerability and invoke the `VMGEXIT` handler recursively. If an attacker manages to call the handler multiple times, they can trigger a stack overflow and cause a denial of service or potentially guest-to-host escape in kernel configurations without stack guard pages (`CONFIG_VMAP_STACK`).

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 13, 2023 CVE published
February 27, 2025 Record updated