CVE-2023-5088
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.4 · CWE-821
6.4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247283 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247283Patch
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230921160712.99521-1-simon.rowe@nutanix.com/T/Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2135
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2962
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5088Advisory