CVE-2026-93834 — 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 req…
Published: 2026-09-25 · CVSS: 8.8 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7