CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-2861

Published: Dec 06, 2023 | Modified: Mar 11, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 8.1.0 (excluding)
Qemu Ubuntu bionic *
Qemu Ubuntu focal *
Qemu Ubuntu jammy *
Qemu Ubuntu kinetic *
Qemu Ubuntu lunar *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *

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