CVE-2023-46813 — Improper Privilege Management in Kernel
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
OSV8.1OSV4.9
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateFeb 23
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.5.9, exploitable by local users with userspace access to MMIO registers. Incorrect access checking in the #VC handler and instruction emulation of the SEV-ES emulation of MMIO accesses could lead to arbitrary write access to kernel memory (and thus privilege escalation). This depends on a race condition through which userspace can replace an instruction before the #VC handler reads it.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9