VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-0298

CVSS score6.5 NONE
EPSS probability2.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-02-12
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The x86 emulator in KVM 83 does not use the Current Privilege Level (CPL) and I/O Privilege Level (IOPL) in determining the memory access available to CPL3 code, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or gain privileges on the guest OS by leveraging access to a (1) IO port or (2) MMIO region, a related issue to CVE-2010-0306.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Primary references