CVE-2020-35517
HIGH
8.2
CVSS Score
Published: January 28, 2021 at 07:13 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:13 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU
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Severity
HIGH8.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2cx_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- HIGH
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269
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