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CVE-2020-35517 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1 Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-35517
NVD Published Date:
01/28/2021
NVD Last Modified:
02/12/2023
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.