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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20181

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20181 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:12qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:14qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:13qemu0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • May 13, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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