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medium 5.1

CVE-2020-10724 json

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.11 and above.

published 2020-05-19 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-3151

cvss
5.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.11 and above. The vhost-crypto library code is missing validations for user-supplied values, potentially allowing an information leak through an out-of-bounds memory read.

Patch / fix

  • dpdk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 19.11.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10724

  • dpdk Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 19.11.1-0ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10724

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ovn2.11 openstack 13 2.11.1-57.el7fdp
  • openvswitch2.11 openstack 13 2.11.3-77.el7fdp
  • ovn2.11-host openstack 13 2.11.1-57.el7fdp
  • ovn2.11-vtep openstack 13 2.11.1-57.el7fdp
  • ovn2.11-central openstack 13 2.11.1-57.el7fdp
  • openvswitch2.11-test openstack 13 2.11.3-77.el7fdp
  • python-openvswitch2.11 openstack 13 2.11.3-77.el7fdp
  • openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy openstack 13 1.0-17.el7fdp

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:0931RHSA-2020:2297RHSA-2020:2296RHSA-2020:2295

  • dpdk SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 18.11.3-3.9.2
  • dpdk-thunderx SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 18.11.3-3.9.2
  • dpdk SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 18.11.3-4.6.2
  • dpdk SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 18.11.3-3.19.2
  • dpdk-thunderx SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 18.11.3-3.19.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1552-1SUSE-SU-2020:1335-1SUSE-SU-2020:1334-1

  • dpdk openSUSE Leap 15.1 18.11.3-lp151.3.4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0693-1

  • openvswitch Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +9 more 2.12.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-10724

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  • ceph Azure Linux 3.0 18.2.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-38527

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-10724 updated cvss 5.1

dpdk: librte_vhost Missing inputs validation in Vhost-crypto

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) openvswitch, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, openvswitch-ovn-common, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openvswitch2.11 2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp, openvswitch2.11-test 2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp, python-openvswitch2.11 2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2296
  • Red Hat Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 openvswitch2.13 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1, openvswitch2.13-test 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1, python3-openvswitch2.13 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1, network-scripts-openvswitch2.13 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1, openvswitch2.11 2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el8fdp, openvswitch2.11-test 2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el8fdp, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2297
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 ovn2.11 2.11.1-57.el7fdp, ovn2.11-host 2.11.1-57.el7fdp, ovn2.11-vtep 2.11.1-57.el7fdp, openvswitch2.11 2.11.3-77.el7fdp, ovn2.11-central 2.11.1-57.el7fdp, openvswitch2.11-test 2.11.3-77.el7fdp, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:0931
  • Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 openvswitch, openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.13, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, +16 more Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.12-test, python3-openvswitch2.12, network-scripts-openvswitch2.12 Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, ceph-mon, +15 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, +27 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dpdk Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 dpdk, dpdk-tools
    +4 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) openvswitch, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, openvswitch-ovn-common, +1 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein) rhosp-openvswitch, python3-rhosp-openvswitch, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-host, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-vtep, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-common, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-central Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 (Train) rhosp-openvswitch, rhosp-openvswitch-test, python3-rhosp-openvswitch, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-host, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-vtep, rhosp-openvswitch-ovn-common, +2 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 openvswitch, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, openvswitch-ovn-common, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] dpdk

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.