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CVE-2020-35503

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-35503 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in QEMU's megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation, affecting versions up to and including 6.0, specifically impacting Fedora and QEMU products. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to trigger a denial of service on the host by crashing the QEMU process. Rated Medium (CVSS 6.0), it requires local access and high privileges, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18533-16820Fixed in: 4.2.0-48
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 qemu-kvm 4.2.0-48 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 4.2.0-48

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2021-Jun/CVE-2020-35503Moderate

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before and including 6.0. This issue occurs in the megasas_command_cancelled() callback function while dropping a SCSI request. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Jun 8, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-35503Low

QEMU: NULL pointer dereference issue in megasas-gen2 host bus adapter

Dec 23, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20210720-0008
Third Party Advisory