CVE-2020-35517

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3