6.5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
With HVM domains, libxl’s setup of PCI passthrough devices does the IOMMU setup after giving (via the device model) the guest access to the hardware and advertising it to the guest.
If the IOMMU is disabled the overall setup fails, but after the device has been made available to the guest; subsequent DMA instructions from the guest to the device will cause wild DMA.
A HVM domain, given access to a device which bus mastering capable in the absence of a functioning IOMMU, can mount a privilege escalation or denial of service attack affecting the whole system.