CVE-2026-5747 PUBLISHED

Out-of-bounds Write in Firecracker virtio-pci Transport

Assigner: AMZN
Reserved: 07.04.2026 Published: 07.04.2026 Updated: 08.04.2026

An out-of-bounds write issue in the virtio PCI transport in Amazon Firecracker 1.13.0 through 1.14.3 and 1.15.0 on x86_64 and aarch64 might allow a local guest user with root privileges to crash the Firecracker VMM process or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host via modification of virtio queue configuration registers after device activation. Achieving code execution on the host requires additional preconditions, such as the use of a custom guest kernel or specific snapshot configurations.

To remediate this, users should upgrade to Firecracker 1.14.4 or 1.15.1 and later.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor AWS
Product Firecracker
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.13.0 to 1.14.3 (incl.)
  • Version 1.15.0 is affected
  • Version 1.14.4 is unaffected
  • Version 1.15.1 is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds write CWE
  • CWE-369 Divide by zero CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers