{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-09-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite",
    "id" : "2247283",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247283"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-821",
  "details" : [ "A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.", "A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat currently provides the nested virtualization feature as a Technology Preview. Nested virtualization is therefore unsupported for production use. For more information please refer to https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21101 and https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2962",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "virt-devel:rhel-8100020240314161907.e155f54d"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2962",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "virt:rhel-8100020240314161907.e155f54d"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2135",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "qemu-kvm-17:8.2.0-11.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm-ma",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Advanced Virtualization",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "virt:av/qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:advanced_virtualization:8::el8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5088\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5088\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20230921160712.99521-1-simon.rowe@nutanix.com/T/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-5088",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}