What is CVE-2023-3301?

CVE-2023-3301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2023-09-13.

How severe is CVE-2023-3301?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qemu

CVE-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 asse…

EPSS: 0.003 (16.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, Patch, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-3301?: CVE-2023-3301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 5.6/10. Published 2023-09-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-3301?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.6 out of 10.