CVE-2020-27174
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27174
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27174.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27174
- Published
- 2020-10-16T05:15:11.830Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T16:28:56.198827Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
In Amazon AWS Firecracker before 0.21.3, and 0.22.x before 0.22.1, the serial console buffer can grow its memory usage without limit when data is sent to the standard input. This can result in a memory leak on the microVM emulation thread, possibly occupying more memory than intended on the host.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:amazon:firecracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "source": "CPE_RANGE", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "0.21.3" }, { "introduced": "0.22.0" }, { "fixed": "0.22.1" } ] }