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CVE-2020-35517 — HIGH severity vulnerability | Release Alert

CVE-2020-35517

8.2

HIGHCVSS v3

Published

January 28, 2021

CVSS v2

4.6 MEDIUM

Affected

5 projects

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

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.

qemu-project/qemu

GitLabQEMU main repository: Please see https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

>= 5.0.0, <= 5.2.50NVD

qemu/qemu

GitHubOfficial QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

>= 5.0.0, <= 5.2.50NVD

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bonzini/qemu

GitHubMy QEMU tree

>= 5.0.0, <= 5.2.50NVD

birkelund/qemu

>= 5.0.0, <= 5.2.50NVD

thuth/qemu

GitLabQEMU mirror for GitLab CI: Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. http://www.qemu.org

>= 5.0.0, <= 5.2.50NVD