CVE-2007-0998: Xen Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VNC server implementation in QEMU, as used by Xen and possibly other environments, allows local users of a guest operating system to read arbitrary files on the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to QEMU monitor mode, as demonstrated by mapping files to a CDROM device. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Xen Qemu: any version

Published 2007-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.