# CVE-2023-0664: A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent service for Windows.

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-03-29 · Updated: 2025-02-18

## Affected

- n/a QEMU: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent service for Windows. A local unprivileged user may be able to manipulate the QEMU Guest Agent's Windows installer via repair custom actions to elevate their privileges on the system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a QEMU, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167423
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg01445.html
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/88288c2a51faa7c795f053fc8b31b1c16ff804c5
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/07ce178a2b0768eb9e712bb5ad0cf6dc7fcf0158
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SEOC7SRJWLZSXCND2ADFW6C76ZMTZLE4/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0005/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MURWGXDIF2WTDXV36T6HFJDBL632AO7R/

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