CVE-2024-4467

Qemu-kvm: 'qemu-img info' leads to host file read/write

HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-07-02 15:57 UTC
Updated: 2026-02-25 20:31 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Deferred

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU disk image utility (qemu-img) 'info' command. A specially crafted image file containing a `json:{}` value describing block devices in QMP could cause the qemu-img process on the host to consume large amounts of memory or CPU time, leading to denial of service or read/write to an existing external file.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-44082
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-4467

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0967 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
qemu	affected 4.0.0 < 9.1.0
Red Hat · Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1	unaffected 8020120240708124623.863bb0db < *
Red Hat · Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS	unaffected 8040020240708093550.522a0ee4 < *
Red Hat · Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS	unaffected 8040020240708093550.522a0ee4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 8100020240704072441.489197e6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 8100020240704072441.489197e6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 8040020240703100448.522a0ee4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 8040020240703100448.522a0ee4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 8040020240703100448.522a0ee4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 8060020240703092415.ad008a3a < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 8060020240703092415.ad008a3a < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 8060020240703092415.ad008a3a < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	unaffected 8080020240703085245.63b34585 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	unaffected 8080020240703085245.63b34585 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 17:8.2.0-11.el9_4.4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 17:6.2.0-11.el9_0.9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support	unaffected 17:7.2.0-14.el9_2.11 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD