CVE-2018-1059 describes a vulnerability in the DPDK vhost-user interface, affecting all versions prior to 18.02.1, including products from Canonical and Red Hat. The flaw stems from a lack of validation for guest physical memory mappings during address translations, allowing a malicious guest to potentially expose the vhost-user backend process memory. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.1 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability requires network access and high attack complexity but could lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
17.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_linux_fast_datapath:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:3.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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