[UPDATE] [high] QEMU: Vulnerability allows privilege escalation or DoS

highCVE-2024-6519

A local attacker can exploit a vulnerability in QEMU to escalate their privileges or cause a denial-of-service condition.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: QEMU product: QEMU Privilege escalation Denial of service

What: A local attacker can escalate privileges or trigger denial of service conditions.
Who is affected: Local users on systems running QEMU.
Urgency: High priority; privilege escalation on hypervisor infrastructure is a critical control plane risk.
Action: Patch QEMU to remediate CVE-2024-6519 immediately.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

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Details

Source: CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)
Severity: high
Published: 2026-08-24
Exploitation: Not in CISA KEV at last sync
Language: Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2024-3155

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Low exploitation riskCVE-2024-65190.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 16% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

CVE	CSIRTS overview	External
CVE-2024-6519	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org

Recent advisories for QEMU

A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.

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