Description of Problem
Several security issues have been discovered in Citrix Hypervisor that, collectively, may allow privileged code in a guest VM to compromise or crash the host.
These issues have the following identifiers:
All currently supported versions of Citrix Hypervisor are affected by all of these issues with the exception of CVE-2021-28699 which only affects Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR.
These issues have the following identifiers:
CVE-ID | Description | Pre-requisites |
CVE-2021-28694 | Host denial of service | Malicious privileged code execution in a guest VM running on a host with firmware that declares ACPI tables which includes memory regions that are identity mapped for devices that have been explicitly assigned, by the host administrator, to that guest VM in PCI passthrough mode. |
CVE-2021-28697 | Host compromise | Malicious privileged code execution in a guest VM that has two or more vCPUs allocated to it |
CVE-2021-28698 | Host denial of service | Malicious privileged code execution in a guest VM |
CVE-2021-28699 | Host compromise | Malicious privileged code execution in a guest VM on a host where the host administrator has modified the guest or host grant table limits |
CVE-2021-28701 | Host compromise | Malicious privileged code execution in a guest VM that has two or more vCPUs allocated to it |
All currently supported versions of Citrix Hypervisor are affected by all of these issues with the exception of CVE-2021-28699 which only affects Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR.