CVE-2020-2732

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-2732

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-2732.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.5.7.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.5.13-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.5.13-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.5.13-1
debian debiansidfixed5.5.13-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.5.13-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.