CVE-2026-3842

high

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. This vulnerability allows a local attacker within a guest virtual machine to write data beyond its allocated memory. This occurs when cpu_physical_memory_map() returns a shorter length than expected, leading to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized access to guest memory or corruption of heap-allocated objects, potentially causing information disclosure, data integrity issues, or a denial of service.

References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3842.json

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458150

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3842

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-16

Updated: 2026-07-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00111