VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2527

low
Published 2012-06-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The change_process_uid function in os-posix.c in Qemu 0.14.0 and earlier does not properly drop group privileges when the -runas option is used, which allows local guest users to access restricted files on the host.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"0.14.0"}
qemuqemu0.1.0
qemuqemu0.1.1
qemuqemu0.1.2
qemuqemu0.1.3
qemuqemu0.1.4
qemuqemu0.1.5
qemuqemu0.1.6
qemuqemu0.2.0
qemuqemu0.3.0
qemuqemu0.4.0
qemuqemu0.4.1
qemuqemu0.4.2
qemuqemu0.4.3
qemuqemu0.6.0
qemuqemu0.6.1
qemuqemu0.7.0
qemuqemu0.7.1
qemuqemu0.7.2
qemuqemu0.8.0
qemuqemu0.8.1
qemuqemu0.8.2
qemuqemu0.9.0
qemuqemu0.9.1
qemuqemu0.9.1-5
qemuqemu0.10.0
qemuqemu0.10.1
qemuqemu0.10.2
qemuqemu0.10.3
qemuqemu0.10.4
qemuqemu0.10.5
qemuqemu0.10.6
qemuqemu0.11.0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc1
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc2
qemuqemu0.11.1
qemuqemu0.12.0
qemuqemu0.12.1
qemuqemu0.12.2
qemuqemu0.12.3
qemuqemu0.12.4
qemuqemu0.12.5
qemuqemu0.13.0
qemuqemu0.14.0
qemuqemu0.14.1
qemuqemu0.15.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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