CVE-2023-3301
Triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM 5.6
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Modified
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.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-43974
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-3301
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0619 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2024-AVI-0119 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≤ 8.0.3cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215784
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231020-0008/
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |