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CVE-2017-15038
Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive…
- 5.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.28%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 79% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20171004 Re: [PATCH] 9pfs: use g_malloc0 to allocate space for xattr (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3575-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20171006 CVE-2017-15038 Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-6513 (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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