CVE-2023-2861

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
8.1.0-rc0 < *unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-284: Improper Access Control

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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