Description
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.
Published: 2021-01-28
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23184 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5010-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Qemu Qemu
Redhat Advanced Virtualization Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:02:08.231Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-35517

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-01-28T20:15:12.913

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:27:28.727

Link: CVE-2020-35517

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-01-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-35517 - Bugzilla

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