CVE-2016-7116

Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.1

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 11, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 3.8
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')