CVE-2016-7116

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.6.2 - Path Traversal

Title source: rule

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.

References (8)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=56f101ecce0eafd09e2daf1c4eeb1377d6959261

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/30/1

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/30/3

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92680

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03917.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg04231.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0086

EPSS Percentile 74.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Affected Products (8)

qemu/qemu < 2.6.2

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026