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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-2732 Moderate

UBUNTU-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 Not scored
Published February 24, 2020
Required by Not available
Last source change August 18, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-oem

34 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-aws-5.0

5 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-oem-osp1

15 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS linux-raspi2

6 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS linux

191 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-aws

39 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-oracle

20 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:18.04:LTS linux-azure-fips

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux

45 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-hwe-edge

23 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:18.04:LTS linux-gcp-fips

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS linux-raspi-realtime

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-oracle-5.0

5 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS linux-riscv

12 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-kvm

43 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gke-5.0

12 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-hwe-edge

10 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-oracle

20 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS linux-aws

42 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gcp-5.3

4 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gke-5.3

2 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-kvm

37 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:18.04:LTS linux-azure-fips

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gke-4.15

16 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS linux-riscv

23 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Nvidia-BlueField:24.04:LTS linux-bluefield

11 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:16.04:LTS linux-fips

2 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-gcp

44 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux

106 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS linux-gke

51 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-azure

53 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:18.04:LTS linux-aws-fips

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:18.04:LTS linux-aws-fips

1 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-aws

64 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-aws-hwe

22 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-azure

42 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-azure-5.3

6 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS linux-azure-fde

26 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gcp

36 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS linux-lts-xenial

84 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS linux-hwe

66 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:16.04:LTS linux-fips

19 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS linux-azure

30 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-hwe

23 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-gcp-edge

12 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS linux-azure-edge

4 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS linux-realtime

1 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities UBUNTU-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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence