Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-10725

Title: DPDK virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed Segmentation Fault DoS

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-10725.

CWE Category CWE-665
Published Date May 20, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.7 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-10725: 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()`.

Impacted Vendors

O
oracle 1
D
dpdk 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRHKFVV4MRWNNJOYQOVP64L4UVWYPEO4/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRHKFVV4MRWNNJOYQOVP64L4UVWYPEO4/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-10725 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.