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 virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode. A guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges inside guest.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-05-17T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:11.894Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7493

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-17T15:29:00.143

Modified: 2020-10-23T16:28:26.397

Link: CVE-2017-7493

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7493 - Bugzilla