Vulnerability · Published Dec 10, 2021 · Assigned by AMD

CVE-2021-26340

High 8.4

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in AMD EPYC™ from AMD. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 83.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A malicious hypervisor in conjunction with an unprivileged attacker process inside an SEV/SEV-ES guest VM may fail to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) resulting in unexpected behavior inside the virtual machine (VM).

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
AMD AMD EPYC™ Processor – through 3rd gen EPYC

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