Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2020-11739 First vendor Publication 2020-04-14
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.8
Base Score 7.8 Environmental Score 7.8
impact SubScore 6 Temporal Score 7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.1
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Changed Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges because of missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths. The read-write unlock paths don't contain a memory barrier. On Arm, this means a processor is allowed to re-order the memory access with the preceding ones. In other words, the unlock may be seen by another processor before all the memory accesses within the "critical" section. As a consequence, it may be possible to have a writer executing a critical section at the same time as readers or another writer. In other words, many of the assumptions (e.g., a variable cannot be modified after a check) in the critical sections are not safe anymore. The read-write locks are used in hypercalls (such as grant-table ones), so a malicious guest could exploit the race. For instance, there is a small window where Xen can leak memory if XENMAPSPACE_grant_table is used concurrently. A malicious guest may be able to leak memory, or cause a hypervisor crash resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Information leak and privilege escalation cannot be excluded.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11739

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 158

Sources (Detail)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedora...
Source Url
CONFIRM http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-314.html
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4723
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-08
MISC https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-314.html
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/14/2
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00006.html

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