Improper Privilege Management Affecting supermin-devel package, versions <0:5.1.19-10.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-SUPERMINDEVEL-3296698
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed28 Jan 2021

Introduced: 28 Jan 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 supermin-devel to version 0:5.1.19-10.module+el8.4.0+534+4680a14e or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:0711.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream supermin-devel package and not the supermin-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 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 Base Scores

version 3.1