CVE-2022-2196 (GCVE-0-2022-2196)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-09 10:59 – Updated: 2026-08-07 18:43
VLAI
Title
Speculative execution attacks in KVM VMX
Summary
A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or applying the relevant stable backports (v5.4.233, v5.10.170, v5.15.96, v6.1.14).
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-01 15:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1188 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Kernel Affected: 64b8f33b2e1e687d465b5cb382e7bec495f1e026 , < f93a1a5bdcdd122aae0a3eab7a52c15b71fb725b (git)
Affected: e089a83fbc55b8057f332c00f125acaa02b08ef7 , < 2e7eab81425ad6c875f2ed47c0ce01e78afc38a5 (git)
Affected: 02a3868d18fe639363f1cea6e6d7914513198e43 , < 2e7eab81425ad6c875f2ed47c0ce01e78afc38a5 (git)
Affected: 5c911beff20aa8639e7a1f28988736c13e03ed54 , < 1b0cafaae8884726c597caded50af185ffc13349 (git)
Affected: 5c911beff20aa8639e7a1f28988736c13e03ed54 , < 6b539a7dbb49250f92515c2ba60aea239efc9e35 (git)
Affected: 5c911beff20aa8639e7a1f28988736c13e03ed54 , < 63fada296062e91ad9f871970d4e7f19e21a6a15 (git)
Affected: 5c911beff20aa8639e7a1f28988736c13e03ed54 , < 2e7eab81425ad6c875f2ed47c0ce01e78afc38a5 (git)
Affected: 5.4.47 , < 5.4.233 (semver)
Affected: 5.6.19 , < 5.7.0 (semver)
Affected: 5.7.3 , < 5.8.0 (semver)
Affected: 5.8.0 , < 5.10.170 (semver)
Affected: 5.11.0 , < 5.15.96 (semver)
Affected: 5.16.0 , < 6.1.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.0 (semver)
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Date Public
2022-10-18 22:00
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.