dpdk CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on dpdk vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 08 Mar 2025, 23:25 UTC

About dpdk Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with dpdk. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total dpdk CVEs: 16
Earliest CVE date: 23 Jan 2018, 14:29 UTC
Latest CVE date: 31 Aug 2022, 16:15 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2022-2132

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 0
365-day Count (Rolling): 0

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): 0%
Year Variation (Calendar): 0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): 0.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): 0.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical dpdk CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 3.41

Max CVSS: 7.2

Critical CVEs (≥9): 0

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 8
4.0-6.9 7
7.0-8.9 1
9.0-10.0 0

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS dpdk CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for dpdk, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for dpdk

CVE-2022-2132 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 0 31 Aug 2022, 16:15 UTC

A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK.

CVE-2022-0669 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 0 29 Aug 2022, 15:15 UTC

A flaw was found in dpdk. This flaw allows a malicious vhost-user master to attach an unexpected number of fds as ancillary data to VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD / VHOST_USER_SET_INFLIGHT_FD messages that are not closed by the vhost-user slave. By sending such messages continuously, the vhost-user master exhausts available fd in the vhost-user slave process, leading to a denial of service.

CVE-2021-3839 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 0 23 Aug 2022, 16:15 UTC

A flaw was found in the vhost library in DPDK. Function vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() does not validate `msg->payload.inflight.num_queues`, possibly causing out-of-bounds memory read/write. Any software using DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability.

CVE-2020-14374 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 7.2 30 Sep 2020, 20:15 UTC

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A flawed bounds checking in the copy_data function leads to a buffer overflow allowing an attacker in a virtual machine to write arbitrary data to any address in the vhost_crypto application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVE-2020-14378 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 2.1 30 Sep 2020, 19:15 UTC

An integer underflow in dpdk versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5 in the `move_desc` function can lead to large amounts of CPU cycles being eaten up in a long running loop. An attacker could cause `move_desc` to get stuck in a 4,294,967,295-count iteration loop. Depending on how `vhost_crypto` is being used this could prevent other VMs or network tasks from being serviced by the busy DPDK lcore for an extended period.

CVE-2020-14377 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 3.6 30 Sep 2020, 19:15 UTC

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A complete lack of validation of attacker-controlled parameters can lead to a buffer over read. The results of the over read are then written back to the guest virtual machine memory. This vulnerability can be used by an attacker in a virtual machine to read significant amounts of host memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and system availability.

CVE-2020-14376 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 6.9 30 Sep 2020, 19:15 UTC

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A lack of bounds checking when copying iv_data from the VM guest memory into host memory can lead to a large buffer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVE-2020-14375 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 4.4 30 Sep 2020, 19:15 UTC

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. Virtio ring descriptors, and the data they describe are in a region of memory accessible by from both the virtual machine and the host. An attacker in a VM can change the contents of the memory after vhost_crypto has validated it. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVE-2020-10726 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 2.1 20 May 2020, 14:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 19.11 and above. A malicious container that has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep sending VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD messages, causing a resource leak (file descriptors and virtual memory), which may result in a denial of service.

CVE-2020-10725 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 20 May 2020, 14:15 UTC

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

CVE-2020-10724 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 2.1 19 May 2020, 19:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.11 and above. The vhost-crypto library code is missing validations for user-supplied values, potentially allowing an information leak through an out-of-bounds memory read.

CVE-2020-10723 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 4.6 19 May 2020, 19:15 UTC

A memory corruption issue was found in DPDK versions 17.05 and above. This flaw is caused by an integer truncation on the index of a payload. Under certain circumstances, the index (a UInt) is copied and truncated into a uint16, which can lead to out of bound indexing and possible memory corruption.

CVE-2020-10722 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 4.6 19 May 2020, 19:15 UTC

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.05 and above. A missing check for an integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() could result in a smaller memory map than requested, possibly allowing memory corruption.

CVE-2019-14818 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 14 Nov 2019, 17:15 UTC

A flaw was found in all dpdk version 17.x.x before 17.11.8, 16.x.x before 16.11.10, 18.x.x before 18.11.4 and 19.x.x before 19.08.1 where a malicious master, or a container with access to vhost_user socket, can send specially crafted VRING_SET_NUM messages, resulting in a memory leak including file descriptors. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition.

CVE-2018-1059 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 2.9 24 Apr 2018, 18:29 UTC

The DPDK vhost-user interface does not check to verify that all the requested guest physical range is mapped and contiguous when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses translations. This may lead to a malicious guest exposing vhost-user backend process memory. All versions before 18.02.1 are vulnerable.

CVE-2015-1142857 dpdk vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 23 Jan 2018, 14:29 UTC

On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF. This includes Linux kernel ixgbe driver before commit f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02e11c1, the Linux Kernel i40e/i40evf driver before e7358f54a3954df16d4f87e3cad35063f1c17de5 and the DPDK before commit 3f12b9f23b6499ff66ec8b0de941fb469297e5d0, additionally Multiple vendor NIC firmware is affected.