CVE-2020-27673
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka
02 Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 35.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-10-22 20:33Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 16:18Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-10-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- eee896d8fdb877f892eb359286addc2115aaefdf21875c58f4b96d3417fbcca0
05 Affected products
06 References
- xenbits.xen.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-332.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1783http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1844http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202011-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20201210 [SECURITY] [DLA 2483-1] linux-4.19 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20201218 [SECURITY] [DLA 2494-1] linux security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210119 Xen Security Advisory 332 v4 (CVE-2020-27673) - Rogue guests can cause DoS of Dom0 via high frequency eventshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/6
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- linux Fixed in 5.9.2.arch1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- linux Fixed in 5.9.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- linux Fixed in 5.9.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- linux Fixed in 5.9.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- linux Fixed in 4.4.0-198.230
- linux-aws Fixed in 4.4.0-1119.133
- linux-aws-hwe Fixed in 4.15.0-1091.96~16.04.1
- linux-azure Fixed in 4.15.0-1103.114~16.04.1
- linux-gcp Fixed in 4.15.0-1091.104~16.04.1
- linux-hwe Fixed in 4.15.0-129.132~16.04.1
- linux-hwe-edge No fix yet
- linux-kvm Fixed in 4.4.0-1085.94
- linux-oracle Fixed in 4.15.0-1062.68~16.04.1
- linux-raspi2 Fixed in 4.4.0-1143.153
- linux-snapdragon Fixed in 4.4.0-1147.157
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- linux Fixed in 4.15.0-129.132
- linux-aws Fixed in 4.15.0-1091.96
- linux-aws-5.0 No fix yet
- linux-aws-5.3 No fix yet
- linux-aws-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1034.35~18.04.1
- linux-azure No fix yet
- linux-azure-4.15 Fixed in 4.15.0-1103.114
- linux-azure-5.3 No fix yet
- linux-azure-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1035.36~18.04.1
- linux-azure-edge No fix yet
- linux-dell300x Fixed in 4.15.0-1010.14
- linux-gcp No fix yet
- linux-gcp-4.15 Fixed in 4.15.0-1091.104
- linux-gcp-5.3 No fix yet
- linux-gcp-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1033.35~18.04.1
- linux-gcp-edge No fix yet
- linux-gke-4.15 Fixed in 4.15.0-1077.82
- linux-gke-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1033.35~18.04.1
- linux-gkeop-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1008.9~18.04.1
- linux-hwe No fix yet
- linux-hwe-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-59.65~18.04.1
- linux-hwe-edge No fix yet
- linux-kvm Fixed in 4.15.0-1082.84
- linux-oem No fix yet
- linux-oracle Fixed in 4.15.0-1062.68
- linux-oracle-5.0 No fix yet
- linux-oracle-5.3 No fix yet
- linux-oracle-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1034.36~18.04.1
- linux-raspi-5.4 Fixed in 5.4.0-1026.29~18.04.1
- linux-raspi2 Fixed in 4.15.0-1077.82
- linux-snapdragon Fixed in 4.15.0-1094.103
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- linux Fixed in 5.4.0-59.65
- linux-aws Fixed in 5.4.0-1034.35
- linux-azure Fixed in 5.4.0-1035.36
- linux-gcp Fixed in 5.4.0-1033.35
- linux-hwe-5.8 Fixed in 5.8.0-44.50~20.04.1
- linux-kvm Fixed in 5.4.0-1031.32
- linux-oem-5.6 No fix yet
- linux-oracle Fixed in 5.4.0-1034.36
- linux-raspi Fixed in 5.4.0-1026.29
- linux-raspi2 No fix yet
- linux-riscv No fix yet
- linux-riscv-5.8 Fixed in 5.8.0-17.19~20.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- linux-intel-iot-realtime No fix yet
- linux-realtime No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- linux No fix yet
- linux-aws Fixed in 4.4.0-1083.87Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-azure Fixed in 4.15.0-1103.114~14.04.1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-lts-xenial Fixed in 4.4.0-198.230~14.04.1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- linux-azure-fde-5.15 Fixed in 5.15.0-1114.123~20.04.1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS
- linux-fips Fixed in 4.4.0-1052.58Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS
- linux-aws-fips Fixed in 4.15.0-2034.35Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-azure-fips Fixed in 4.15.0-2016.18Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-fips Fixed in 4.15.0-1049.56Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS
- linux-aws-fips Fixed in 5.4.0-1069.73+fips2Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-azure-fips Fixed in 5.4.0-1073.76+fips1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
- linux-gcp-fips Fixed in 5.4.0-1067.71~20.04.1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS
- linux-fips No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS
- linux-aws-fips No fix yet
- linux-azure-fips No fix yet
- linux-fips No fix yet
- linux-gcp-fips No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS
- linux-aws-fips No fix yet
- linux-azure-fips No fix yet
- linux-gcp-fips No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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