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CVE-2020-14374

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-14374 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) affecting versions before 18.11.10 and 19.11.5, including various Canonical and openSUSE products. The flaw, located in the copy_data function's bounds checking, allows an attacker within a virtual machine to write arbitrary data to any address in the vhost_crypto application. This vulnerability is rated as High severity (CVSS 8.8), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, posing significant threats to data confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 18.02.1, < 18.11.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 19.02, < 19.11.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 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 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-14374Important

dpdk: remote Code Execution in vhost_crypto (VM Escape)

Sep 28, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00004.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingTool Signature
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/09/28/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/1
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/2
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory