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CVE-2014-3471

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3471 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU's pcie.c, affecting QEMU instances. This flaw allows a local guest OS user to trigger a denial of service by repeatedly hotplugging and hotunplugging Virtio block devices, leading to a QEMU instance crash. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), the attack requires local access and low privileges, but does not involve user interaction, resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.1.2:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3471Moderate

Qemu: hw: pci: use after free triggered via guest

Jun 23, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-01.xml
Third Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg05283.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/23/4
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/68145
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry