# CVE-2020-10702: A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.0.0
- Published: 2020-06-04 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- The QEMU Project qemu: from 4.0.0, fixed in 5.0.0

## Description

A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in version 5.0.0. A general failure of the signature generation process caused every PAuth-enforced pointer to be signed with the same signature. A local attacker could obtain the signature of a protected pointer and abuse this flaw to bypass PAuth protection for all programs running on QEMU.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The QEMU Project qemu, upgrade to a fixed version (5.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10702
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=de0b1bae6461f67243282555475f88b2384a1eb9
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200724-0007/

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