CVE-2020-8938 Arbitrary enclave memory location write from untrusted environment
An attacker can write arbitrary values to enclave memory via a host call, potentially leading to code execution within the secure enclave.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-8938?
CVE-2020-8938 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google LLC Asylo, published on 15 Dec 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in Asylo versions up to 0.6.0 allows an attacker to make a host call to FromkLinuxSockAddr with attacker controlled content and size of klinux_addr which allows an attacker to write memory values from within the enclave. We recommend upgrading past commit a37fb6a0e7daf30134dbbf357c9a518a1026aa02
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8938?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Asylo.
How do I fix CVE-2020-8938?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8938 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2020-8938 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8938 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google LLC Asylo
- CVE-2021-22548 Arbitrary enclave memory overread vulnerability in Asylo TrustedPrimitives::UntrustedCall
- CVE-2021-22549 Arbitrary enclave memory overwrite vulnerability in Asylo TrustedPrimitives::UntrustedCall
- CVE-2021-22550 Enclave memory overwrite/overread vulnerability in Asylo UntrustedCacheMalloc::GetBuffer
- CVE-2020-8904 Arbitrary trusted memory overwrite vulnerability in Asylo
- CVE-2021-22552 Memory overread secure enclave in Asylo 0.6.2
Sources
Also known as GHSA-74pw-fvg5-f337.