CVE-2018-10853

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilege(CPL) level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside guest.

CVSS v2.0 4.6

4.6^/10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

CVSS v3.0 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1	Mailing List Patch
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853	Issue Tracking Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/	Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179

Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

24 Jan 2023, 16:19

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:predictapp_project:predictapp::::::::
References	~~(MISC) https://github.com/abhilash1985/PredictApp/commit/b067372f3ee26fe1b657121f0f41883ff4461a06 -~~	(MISC) https://github.com/abhilash1985/PredictApp/commit/b067372f3ee26fe1b657121f0f41883ff4461a06 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References	~~(MISC) https://github.com/abhilash1985/PredictApp/pull/73 -~~	(MISC) https://github.com/abhilash1985/PredictApp/pull/73 - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References	~~(MISC) https://vuldb.com/?id.218387 -~~	(MISC) https://vuldb.com/?id.218387 - Third Party Advisory
References	~~(MISC) https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218387 -~~	(MISC) https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218387 - Third Party Advisory
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 9.8
First Time		Predictapp Project predictapp Predictapp Project

16 Jan 2023, 13:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2018-09-11 02:29

Updated : 2019-10-03 12:03

NVD link : CVE-2018-10853

Mitre link : CVE-2018-10853

Products Affected

No products.

CWE

CWE-269