CVE-2012-2652: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: version 1.0 only

Published 2012-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.