VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-27821

CVSS score6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. This flaw affects QEMU versions prior to 5.2.0.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-787
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references