CVE-2023-2861 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-2861

Qemu: 9pfs: improper access control on special files

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Jietao Xiao, Jinku Li, Wenbo Shen, and Yanwu Shen for reporting this issue.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Unknown
Vulnerable Versions:
8.1.0-rc0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 6th, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)