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CVE-2026-12080Qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22; Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5.0; Red Hat Red Hat Enterp… Veröffentlicht: (vor 3 Monaten)

Beschreibung

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent (qga). A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) file-symlink race. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to gain ownership of arbitrary root-owned files or directories, leading to root access. This vulnerability requires an external management layer (e.g., libvirt) to trigger the affected code path.

Schwachstellentyp (CWE): CWE-61

Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.

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