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CVE-2023-2861

Published: Dec 6, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.0

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	qemu	unaffected `8.1.0-rc0 - < *`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2861

vdb-entry

x_refsource_REDHAT

issue-tracking

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00012.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0005/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240229-0002/

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