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Alpine: multiple qemu packages: security update to 8.0.2-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406797

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2023-2861)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-2861

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406797

Version: Revision 1.33

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 12/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2861

IAVB: 2023-B-0058-S