VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-3887

CVSS score5.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-04-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister (MSR) access with nested(=1) virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash the host kernel resulting in DoS issue. Kernel versions from 4.16 and newer are vulnerable to this issue.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

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