CVSS 3.1
5.6 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-3301
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-362, CWE-617
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:enterprise_linux