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high 7.8

CVE-2020-14375 json

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5.

published 2020-09-30 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6515

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. Virtio ring descriptors, and the data they describe are in a region of memory accessible by from both the virtual machine and the host. An attacker in a VM can change the contents of the memory after vhost_crypto has validated it. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Patch / fix

  • dpdk data_plane_development_kit 18.11.10, 19.11.5
  • dpdk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 19.11.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14375

  • dpdk Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14375

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 SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP2 19.11.4-3.9.1
  • dpdk-thunderx SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 19.11.4-3.9.1
  • dpdk SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 18.11.9-4.12.1
  • dpdk SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 18.11.9-3.15.1
  • dpdk-thunderx SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 18.11.9-3.15.1
  • dpdk SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 18.11.9-3.25.1
  • dpdk-thunderx SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 18.11.9-3.25.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:2770-1SUSE-SU-2020:2769-1SUSE-SU-2020:2768-1SUSE-SU-2020:2767-1

  • dpdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 19.11.8-2.7
  • dpdk openSUSE Leap 15.2 19.11.4-lp152.2.8.1
  • dpdk openSUSE Leap 15.1 18.11.9-lp151.3.8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10727-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1599-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1593-1

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-2020-14375 updated cvss 7.8

dpdk: time-of-check time-of-use vulnerabilities throughout vhost_crypto.c

  • 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, openvswitch2.13, openvswitch2.11-test, openvswitch2.12-test, openvswitch2.13-test, +7 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 Enterprise Linux 8 dpdk, dpdk-tools
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 dpdk, dpdk-tools Red Hat Virtualization 4 openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.11-test, python-openvswitch2.10, python-openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.10-ovn-host, +2 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

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a dpdk

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Sources

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