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Misconfiguration
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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2527

Published: Jun 21, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
3.7 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2527
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The change_process_uid function in os-posix.c in Qemu 0.14.0 and earlier does not properly drop group privileges when the -runas option is used, which allows local guest users to access restricted files on the host.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QemuQemu*0.14.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.0 (including)0.1.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.1 (including)0.1.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.2 (including)0.1.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.3 (including)0.1.3 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.4 (including)0.1.4 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.5 (including)0.1.5 (including)
QemuQemu0.1.6 (including)0.1.6 (including)
QemuQemu0.2.0 (including)0.2.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.3.0 (including)0.3.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.4.0 (including)0.4.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.4.1 (including)0.4.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.4.2 (including)0.4.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.4.3 (including)0.4.3 (including)
QemuQemu0.6.0 (including)0.6.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.6.1 (including)0.6.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.7.0 (including)0.7.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.7.1 (including)0.7.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.7.2 (including)0.7.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.8.0 (including)0.8.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.8.1 (including)0.8.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.8.2 (including)0.8.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.9.0 (including)0.9.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.9.1 (including)0.9.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.9.1-5 (including)0.9.1-5 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.0 (including)0.10.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.1 (including)0.10.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.2 (including)0.10.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.3 (including)0.10.3 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.4 (including)0.10.4 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.5 (including)0.10.5 (including)
QemuQemu0.10.6 (including)0.10.6 (including)
QemuQemu0.11.0 (including)0.11.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.11.0-rc0 (including)0.11.0-rc0 (including)
QemuQemu0.11.0-rc1 (including)0.11.0-rc1 (including)
QemuQemu0.11.0-rc2 (including)0.11.0-rc2 (including)
QemuQemu0.11.1 (including)0.11.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.0 (including)0.12.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.0-rc1 (including)0.12.0-rc1 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.0-rc2 (including)0.12.0-rc2 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.1 (including)0.12.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.2 (including)0.12.2 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.3 (including)0.12.3 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.4 (including)0.12.4 (including)
QemuQemu0.12.5 (including)0.12.5 (including)
QemuQemu0.13.0 (including)0.13.0 (including)
QemuQemu0.13.0-rc0 (including)0.13.0-rc0 (including)
QemuQemu0.13.0-rc1 (including)0.13.0-rc1 (including)
QemuQemu0.14.0-rc0 (including)0.14.0-rc0 (including)
QemuQemu0.14.0-rc1 (including)0.14.0-rc1 (including)
QemuQemu0.14.0-rc2 (including)0.14.0-rc2 (including)
QemuQemu0.14.1 (including)0.14.1 (including)
QemuQemu0.15.0-rc1 (including)0.15.0-rc1 (including)
QemuQemu0.15.0-rc2 (including)0.15.0-rc2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatqemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.209.el6*
Qemu-kvmUbuntudevel*
Qemu-kvmUbuntulucid*
Qemu-kvmUbuntumaverick*
Qemu-kvmUbuntunatty*

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