CVE-2023-53663 — Reachable Assertion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 7
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nSVM: Check instead of asserting on nested TSC scaling support
Check for nested TSC scaling support on nested SVM VMRUN instead of
asserting that TSC scaling is exposed to L1 if L1's MSR_AMD64_TSC_RATIO
has diverged from KVM's default. Userspace can trigger the WARN at will
by writing the MSR and then updating guest CPUID to hide the feature
(modifying guest CPUID is allowed anytime before KVM_RUN). E.g. hacking
KVM's sta…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux5228eb96a4875f8cf5d61d486e3795ac14df8904 — 6c1ecfea1daf6e75c46e295aad99dfbafd878897+3
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-92f6-rh29-hfq6: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nSVM: Check instead of asserting on nested TSC scaling support
Check for ne↗2025-10-07
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53663: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nSVM: Check instead of asserting on nested TSC scaling support Check for nest↗2025-10-07