CVE-2023-3301CWE-617

Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug

Medium · published September 13, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00259 · 16.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion
Published
2023-09-13T16:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 16:09Z
    Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
    cvelistv5