Security Advisory

CVE-2020-27174

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date October 16, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory