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The lack of nested page table protection in the AMD SEV...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The lack of nested page table protection in the AMD SEV/SEV-ES feature could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution within the guest VM if a malicious administrator has access to compromise the server hypervisor.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 13, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.093%
(41st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-12967

GHSA ID

GHSA-36x8-2j7w-8439

Source code

No known source code

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