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CVE-2020-10725

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10725 describes a high-severity flaw in DPDK versions 19.11 and later, impacting products like Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Oracle. A missing validity check allows a malicious guest to trigger a segmentation fault in the vhost-user backend, leading to a denial of service for other guests on the host. With a CVSS score of 7.7, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_communications_broker:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_communications_broker:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openvswitch2.13-0:2.13.0-25.el8fdp.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dpdk-0:19.11.3-1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: dpdk-0:19.11-5.el8_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-10725Important

dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor

May 18, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.dpdk.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRHKFVV4MRWNNJOYQOVP64L4UVWYPEO4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory