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high 7.7

CVE-2020-10725 json

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend appl…

published 2020-05-20 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-3152

cvss
7.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10725

  • dpdk Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 19.11.1-0ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10725

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

  • dpdk RHEL 8 19.11.3-1.el8
  • dpdk-tools RHEL 8 19.11.3-1.el8
  • openvswitch2.13 RHEL 8 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1
  • openvswitch2.13-test RHEL 8 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1
  • python3-openvswitch2.13 RHEL 8 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1
  • network-scripts-openvswitch2.13 RHEL 8 2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1
  • dpdk RHEL 8.2 EUS 19.11-5.el8_2
  • dpdk-tools RHEL 8.2 EUS 19.11-5.el8_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:1239RHSA-2020:4806RHSA-2020:2295

  • 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-2020:1335-1SUSE-SU-2020:1334-1

  • dpdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 19.11.8-2.7
  • dpdk openSUSE Leap 15.1 18.11.3-lp151.3.4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10727-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0693-1

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-2020-10725 updated cvss 7.7

dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor

  • 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
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2295
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) dpdk 19.11.3-1.el8, dpdk-tools 19.11.3-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4806
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) dpdk 19.11-5.el8_2, dpdk-tools 19.11-5.el8_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1239
  • Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 openvswitch, openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.13, openvswitch-test, +19 more Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.11-test, openvswitch2.12-test, python3-openvswitch2.11, python3-openvswitch2.12, +2 more 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 OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) openvswitch, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, openvswitch-ovn-common, +2 more
    +4 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) openvswitch, openvswitch2.11, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, +4 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

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] dpdk

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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