CVE-2023-2861 (GCVE-0-2023-2861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-06 06:19 – Updated: 2024-08-02 06:33
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unaffected: 8.1.0-rc0 , < * (semver)
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Jietao Xiao, Jinku Li, Wenbo Shen, and Yanwu Shen for reporting this issue.
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