What the vulnerability does

01Description

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 13, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated