CVE-2024-6519
A local attacker can exploit a vulnerability in QEMU to escalate their privileges or cause a denial-of-service condition.
CSIRTS triage
- 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.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 16% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- high[UPDATE] [high] QEMU: Vulnerability allows privilege escalation or DoScert-bund · 2026-08-24
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