Qemu-kvm: 9pfs: use-after-free race in tlcreate/twalk allows vm guest escape
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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in QEMU's 9pfs subsystem. A race condition between the main thread and a worker thread when processing concurrent Tlcreate and Twalk requests allows a malicious guest user to craft a fid path containing stale heap data, bypassing directory traversal restrictions and escaping the shared directory boundary. This can lead to arbitrary host file read/write and code execution (VM escape) as the QEMU process user.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- qemu-kvm
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- qemu-kvm
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- qemu-kvm
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- qemu-kvm-ma
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- virt-devel:rhel/qemu-kvm
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- virt:rhel/qemu-kvm
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- qemu-kvm
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- qemu-kvm
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- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8
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- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
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- qemu-kvm-rhev
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