CVE-2024-6519: Qemu: scsi: lsi53c895a: use-after-free local privilege escalation vulnerability
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-6519 is a high (CVSS 8.2) Use After Free vulnerability in qemu. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 8.2, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 3Timeline
- 21-10-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 21-10-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the QEMU LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation. This issue can lead to a crash or VM escape.
CVSS metrics
6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.25%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
16%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.25% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard14 products
- qemu< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-block-iscsi< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-block-rbd< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-edk2-aarch64< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-edk2-x86_64< 11.0.1-r0
Wolfi14 products
- qemu< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-block-iscsi< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-block-rbd< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-edk2-aarch64< 11.0.1-r0
- qemu-edk2-x86_64< 11.0.1-r0
Ubuntu2 products
- qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.47+esm6 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51+esm4 | < 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.42+esm5 | < 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.30+esm1 | < 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.30 | < 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.16 | < 1:10.1.0+ds-5ubuntu2.6 | All versions (No fix recorded)
- qemu-hweAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- qemuAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1:10.0.10+ds-0+deb13u1 | < 1:11.0.0+ds-1
Qemu1 product
- qemuna
5 vendors · 32 products
References
8 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292089Issue TrackingX Refsource REDHATREPORTThird Party Advisory