CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-35517
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (>= 5.0.0 <= 5.2.50)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory