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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2023-2861 Detail

Description

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2861 CVE, Fedora Project Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219266 CVE, Fedora Project Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00012.html CVE, Fedora Project
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0005/ CVE, Fedora Project
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240229-0002/ CVE, Fedora Project

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-284 Improper Access Control Fedora Project  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-2861
NVD Published Date:
12/06/2023
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
Fedora Project