CVE-2018-20168 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Google gVisor versions prior to 2018-08-22. The flaw stems from gVisor's reuse of a pagetable with an intact paging-structure cache, allowing an unprivileged attacker to trigger a "physical address not valid" panic and cause a denial of service through a crafted application. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2018-08-22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gvisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.