Use After Free in Qemu

CVE-2020-35506

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

EPSS: 0.004 (29.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Qemu
  • N/a Qemu — versions qemu 6.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-35506?
CVE-2020-35506 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2021-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2020-35506?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-35506 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.