VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-8556
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
CRITICAL 10.0EPSS 13.4%
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 13.4%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
- CVSS 3.0
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 13.37% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- qemu/qemu
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.