A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
CVE-2020-25723
Score 3.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 3.2; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.2
- EG Score
- 3.2(medium)
- EG Risk
- 19(Track)EG Risk 19/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity32% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 28%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 2, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- secalert@redhathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/22/1
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898579
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- secalert@redhathttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201218-0004/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/22/1
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898579
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201218-0004/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-25723(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2021:1762Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2021:0648Red Hat Product SecurityLow
Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 security update
- RHBA-2021:0639Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: virt:8.3 bug fix and enhancement update
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | qemu-utils (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.48) @ xenial | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | virt:rhel-8040020210317013608.9f9e2e7e | 2021-05-18 | redhat |
| redhat | virt:rhel-8020020210203192122.4cda2c84 | 2021-03-09 | redhat |
| redhat | virt-devel:8.2-8020120210203174743.863bb0db | 2021-02-23 | redhat |
| redhat | virt-devel:8.3-8030120210211160750.71132145 | 2021-02-22 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(3)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2020-257232020-12-08
A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service.
- Red HatRHSA-2021:0771LOW2020-08-12
RHSA-2021:0771 — Low
- UbuntuUSN-4650-1MEDIUM
QEMU vulnerabilities
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