CVE-2026-93834

Public on 2026-09-25
Modified on 2026-09-29
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in QEMU's 9pfs subsystem. A race condition between the main thread and a worker thread when processing concurrent Tlcreate and Twalk requests allows a malicious guest user to craft a fid path containing stale heap data, bypassing directory traversal restrictions and escaping the shared directory boundary. This can lead to arbitrary host file read/write and code execution (VM escape) as the QEMU process user.
Severity
Important severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 qemu Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2027 Preview qemu Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu-guest-agent Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core qemu-kvm Not Affected

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H