CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-2861

7.1 HIGH Published 2023-12-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284

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.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (< 8.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References