CVE-2016-3710, dubbed "Dark Portal," is a critical vulnerability in the QEMU VGA module affecting various products including Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. It allows a local guest OS administrator to execute arbitrary code on the host system due to improper bounds checking during banked video memory access. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local privileges, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the host. Despite its high severity, there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received no significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:helion_openstack:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:helion_openstack:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:helion_openstack:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hp:helion_openstack:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.