{"id":"CVE-2021-32845","aliases":["EUVD-2021-19577","GHSA-hpc3-58qp-h295"],"status":"published","title":"Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use vtrnd pci_vtrnd_notify","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0025,"percentile":0.16477,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-252","CWE-908"],"published":"2023-02-17T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-20T14:23:25Z","products":[{"vendor":"moby","product":"hyperkit"},{"vendor":"mobyproject","product":"hyperkit"}],"references":[{"url":"https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-054_057-moby-hyperkit/","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/pull/313","tags":["x_transferred","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/commit/41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948","tags":["x_transferred","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32845"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hpc3-58qp-h295"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-32845","title":"Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use vtrnd pci_vtrnd_notify","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","status":"published","published":"2023-02-17T00:00:00Z","modified":"2025-03-10T21:09:53.34Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-908"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:07.014772Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2021-19577","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","status":"published","published":"2023-02-17T00:00:00Z","modified":"2025-03-10T21:09:53Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:53:09.197707Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-hpc3-58qp-h295","title":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0...","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","status":"published","published":"2023-02-18T00:31:58Z","modified":"2023-07-04T05:01:38Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-252","CWE-908"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:54:40.485503Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2021-32845","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","status":"published","published":"2023-02-17T23:15:11.963Z","modified":"2026-06-17T03:53:44.877Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-908","CWE-252"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:07.323379Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2021-32845","description":"HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc-\u003evrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.","status":"published","published":"2023-02-17T23:15:11.963Z","modified":"2026-10-20T14:23:25.336279408Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:19.793849Z"}]}}