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CVE-2016-7116
Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files…
Medium6.0EPSS 0.63%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.63% · top 50% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- [qemu-devel] 20160826 [PATCH v2 0/5] 9P security fixes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160830 Re: CVE request: Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 92680 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201609-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=56f101ecce0eafd09e2daf1c4eeb1377d6959261 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160830 CVE request: Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20160830 [PATCH v4 0/3] 9pfs security fixes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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