CVE-2017-7471
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.0 Critical
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2018-07-09
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Affected products
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/19/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97970
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7471
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9c6b899f7a46893ab3b671e341a2234e9c0c060e
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
