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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2020-15863

Vendordebian, canonical, qemuProductdebian linux, ubuntu linux, qemuDiscoveredJul 28, 2020UpdatedNov 21, 2024

hw/net/xgmac.c in the XGMAC Ethernet controller in QEMU before 07-20-2020 has a buffer overflow. This occurs during packet transmission and affects the highbank and midway emulated machines. A guest user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential privileged code execution. This was fixed in commit 5519724a13664b43e225ca05351c60b4468e4555.

CVSS v3.1
5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.48%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
1
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Sep 21, 2026
▲ 0.02pp
0.46% → 0.48% over 2 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeCHANGED
ConfidentialityLOW
IntegrityLOW
AvailabilityLOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Jul 28, 2020
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Nov 21, 2024
Jun 9, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8412-1: QEMU vulnerabilities