CVE-2015-8556

high-risk
Published 2017-03-24

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.

Do I need to act?

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21.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 79% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
39010
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
10
CVSS 10.0/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Qemu

References (6)

Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalati...
Exploit https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/
Exploit http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalati...
Exploit https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/
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high-risk
Severity 33/34 · Critical
Exploitability 14/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal