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CVE-2021-20181

CVE information

Published

2 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.9/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
0.8/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
Impact Score
6/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Changed
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -