CVE-2020-35517

high

Description

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-28

Updated: 2023-02-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High