CVE-2024-25742 describes a vulnerability in the Linux kernel prior to version 6.9, specifically impacting AMD SEV-SNP and SEV-ES confidential virtual machines. An untrusted hypervisor can inject a virtual interrupt 29 (#VC) at any time, triggering its handler. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a local attack vector with high attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts, and a low availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code is unavailable, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | n/aCNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.