Improper Privilege Management Affecting qemu package, versions <1:5.2+dfsg-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-QEMU-5694210
  • published23 Jan 2021
  • disclosed28 Jan 2021

Introduced: 23 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-35517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 qemu to version 1:5.2+dfsg-5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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