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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2023-5088

Vendorredhat, qemuProductenterprise linux, qemuDiscoveredNov 3, 2023UpdatedNov 3, 2025

A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead (potentially overwriting the VM's boot code). This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk (vdiskL2) stored on a virtual disk of an L1 (vdiskL1) hypervisor to read and/or write data to LBA 0 of vdiskL1, potentially gaining control of L1 at its next reboot.

CVSS v3.1
6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.23%
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
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Connections
4 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Nov 3, 2023
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Nov 3, 2025
Jun 9, 2026
ubuntu.com reports: USN-8412-1: QEMU vulnerabilities