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CVE-2021-38672 · Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Severity
Critical
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS
8.0 base · 7.0 temporal
Release
2021-10-12
Signals
Role: Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Exploited: No Publicly disclosed: No Exploitability: Exploitation Less Likely
CWE
No CWE data published.
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Description
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VM Guest to Host
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? For successful exploitation, this vulnerability could allow a malicious guest VM to read kernel memory in the host. To trigger this vulnerability the guest VM requires a memory allocation error to first occur on the guest VM. This bug could be used for a VM escape from guest to host.