CVE-2018-10853
Linux KVM Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 11, 2018, 2:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:42 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
1.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2018-10853 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2018-10853
vulnerability.
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2018-10853.
We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2018-10853 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2018-10853 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 21, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0179 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 14, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0103 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jan. 07, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0036 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 09, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3 Red Hat, Inc. AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-250 -
CWE Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CWE CWE-264 CWE-264 CWE-269 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 06, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 20, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00043.html [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 19, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10853 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129a72a0d3c8e139a04512325384fe5ac119e74 Patch, Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6 No Types Assigned https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c9fa24ca7c9c47605672916491f79e8ccacb9e6 Patch, Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1 No Types Assigned https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/02/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Added CWE CWE-264 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.18 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 02, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 12, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html [No Types Assigned]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-10853 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-10853
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.06 }} 0.02%
score
0.26438
percentile