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CVE-2020-24718

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-24718 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting bhyve in FreeBSD, OmniOS CE, and OpenIndiana. It allows a root user within a container on an Intel system to gain higher privileges by manipulating VMCS_HOST_RIP due to improper restrictions on VMCS and VMCB operations. The CVSS score of 8.2 indicates a local attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p11:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 358 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / illumos/illumos-gate/blob/84971882a96ac0fecd538b02208054a872ff8af3/usr/src/uts/i86pc/io/vmm/intel/vmcs.c
ExploitThird Party Advisory
security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:28.bhyve_vmcs.asc
Vendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20201016-0002
Third Party Advisory