CVE-2017-7471

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing files on a shared host directory. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host.

Affected products

QEMU: through 2.8.1.1; 2.9.0-rc0, 2.9.0-rc1, 2.9.0-rc2, 2.9.0-rc3, 2.9.0-rc4

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/19/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97970
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7471
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9c6b899f7a46893ab3b671e341a2234e9c0c060e
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/19/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97970
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7471
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9c6b899f7a46893ab3b671e341a2234e9c0c060e
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03

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