Medium severity6.0OSV Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-2861
CVE-2023-2861
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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Affected products
30- osv-coords26 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1
< 8.0.3-1.1+ 25 more
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.3-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-69.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-69.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.0-150500.49.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.2.0-150400.37.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-150300.130.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-150200.79.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-150200.79.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-150200.79.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-150100.80.51.5
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-150100.80.51.5
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-150100.80.51.5
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