CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-8860
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-02-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-212
Description
A flaw was found in QEMU in the uefi-vars virtual device. When the guest writes to register UEFI_VARS_REG_BUFFER_SIZE, the .write callback `uefi_vars_write` is invoked. The function allocates a heap buffer without zeroing the memory, leaving the buffer filled with residual data from prior allocations. When the guest later reads from register UEFI_VARS_REG_PIO_BUFFER_TRANSFER, the .read callback `uefi_vars_read` returns leftover metadata or other sensitive process memory from the previously allocated buffer, leading to an information disclosure vulnerability.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-212 Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8860 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2387588 bugzilla.redhat.com