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In computer security, virtual machine escape is the process of breaking out of a virtual machine and interacting with the host operating system.[1] A virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system".[2] In 2008, a vulnerability (CVE-2008-0923) in VMware discovered by Core Security Technologies made VM escape possible on VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 and 5.5.4.[3][4] A fully working exploit labeled Cloudburst was developed by Immunity Inc. for Immunity CANVAS (commercial penetration testing tool).[5] Cloudburst was presented in Black Hat USA 2009.[6]

Previous known vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2007-1744 Directory traversal vulnerability in shared folders feature for VMware
  • CVE-2008-0923 Directory traversal vulnerability in shared folders feature for VMware
  • CVE-2009-1244 Cloudburst: VM display function in VMware
  • CVE-2012-0217 The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier
  • CVE-2014-0983 Oracle VirtualBox 3D acceleration multiple memory corruption
  • CVE-2015-3456 VENOM: buffer-overflow in QEMU's virtual floppy disk controller
  • CVE-2015-7835 Xen Hypervisor: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests
  • CVE-2016-6258 Xen Hypervisor: The PV pagetable code has fast-paths for making updates to pre-existing pagetable entries, to skip expensive re-validation in safe cases (e.g. clearing only Access/Dirty bits). The bits considered safe were too broad, and not actually safe.
  • CVE-2016-7092 Xen Hypervisor: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests
  • CVE-2017-0075 Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-0109 Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-4903 VMWare ESXi, Workstation, Fusion: SVGA driver contains buffer overflow that may allow guests to execute code on hosts[7]
  • CVE-2017-4934 VMware Workstation, Fusion: Heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in VMNAT device that may allow a guest to execute code on the host[8]
  • CVE-2017-4936 VMware Workstation, Horizon View : Multiple out-of-bounds read issues via Cortado ThinPrint may allow a guest to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS[8]
  • CVE-2018-2698 Oracle VirtualBox: shared memory interface by the VGA allows read and writes on the host OS[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "What is VM Escape? - The Lone Sysadmin". 22 September 2007.
  2. ^ "Virtual Machines: Virtualization vs. Emulation". Retrieved 2011-03-11.
  3. ^ "Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation". 18 May 2016.
  4. ^ Dignan, Larry. "Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop apps - ZDNet".
  5. ^ "Security Monitoring News, Analysis, Discussion, & Community". Dark Reading.
  6. ^ "Black Hat ® Technical Security Conference: USA 2009 // Briefings". www.blackhat.com.
  7. ^ "VMSA-2017-0006". VMWare.
  8. ^ a b "VMSA-2017-0018.1". VMWare.
  9. ^ "CVE-2018-2698". securiteam.com: Oracle VirtualBox Multiple Guest to Host Escape Vulnerabilities.
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