Vulnerability · Published Mar 29, 2023 · Assigned by redhat
CVE-2023-0664
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity privilege mismanagement in QEMU. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent service for Windows. A local unprivileged user may be able to manipulate the QEMU Guest Agent's Windows installer via repair custom actions to elevate their privileges on the system.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-250, CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167423
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg01445.html
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/88288c2a51faa7c795f053fc8b31b1c16ff804c5
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/07ce178a2b0768eb9e712bb5ad0cf6dc7fcf0158
- FEDORA-2023-e5a35f7197 vendor-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0005/
- FEDORA-2023-68df3f4b02 vendor-advisory