CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-0664

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Mar 29, 2023 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.8 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent service for Windows. A local unprivileged user may be able to manipulate the QEMU Guest Agents Windows installer via repair custom actions to elevate their privileges on the system.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 8.0.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat virtio-win-0:1.9.33-0.el9_2 *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References