CVE-2020-35517
8.2
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.11%
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.
How to fix CVE-2020-35517
To remediate CVE-2020-35517, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/qemu—upgrade to 1:5.2+dfsg-5 or later
Is CVE-2020-35517 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:5.2+dfsg-5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |