CVE-2020-2732
Moderate
CVE-2020-2732
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
Exploit probability
0.9%
Published
April 8, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-2732
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A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805135
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/07721feee46b4b248402133228235318199b05ec
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/35a571346a94fb93b5b3b6a599675ef3384bc75c
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/e71237d3ff1abf9f3388337cfebf53b96df2020d
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5540.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5542.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5543.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4667
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/25/3
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg208259.html