🛡️ CVE-2023-3301
🟡 CVSS 5.6 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-617 NVD
5.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. The async nature of hot-unplug enables a race scenario where the net device backend is cleared before the virtio-net pci frontend has been unplugged. A malicious guest could use this time window to trigger an assertion and cause a denial of service.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-617
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-13
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
qemu 8.0.3

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