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CVE-2026-93834high

Qemu-kvm: 9pfs: use-after-free race in tlcreate/twalk allows vm guest escape

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in QEMU's 9pfs subsystem. A race condition between the main thread and a worker thread when processing concurrent Tlcreate and Twalk requests allows a malicious guest user to craft a fid path containing stale heap data, bypassing directory traversal restrictions and escaping the shared directory boundary. This can lead to arbitrary host file read/write and code execution (VM escape) as the QEMU process user.

Risk score

8.8

CVSS 3.1

Vendor
Red Hat
Product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)
CWE
CWE-416
Published
Sep 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 31, 2026
CISA KEV
Not flagged

Affected products and versions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)

Red Hat

No affected version range was provided.

Technical metrics

8.8

CVSS 3.1

Severity
high
Source
redhat
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H