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CVE-2022-0216: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation of QEMU.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 17/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.43% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: qemu (Debian:10) 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10; qemu (Debian:12) 1:7.1+dfsg-1; qemu (openSUSE:Leap 15.3) 3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2, 4.2.1-150200.69.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to qemu (Debian:10) 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10; qemu (Debian:12) 1:7.1+dfsg-1; qemu (openSUSE:Leap 15.3) 3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2, 4.2.1-150200.69.1 or later.

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Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation of QEMU. The flaw occurs while processing repeated messages to cancel the current SCSI request via the lsi_do_msgout function. This flaw allows a malicious privileged user within the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

MediumCVSS 4.4 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Aug 26, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 37th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 17 / 40 · 4.4 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
qemu	qemu	cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu
fedoraproject	fedora	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

fedoraproject fedora37
qemu qemubefore 6.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

n/a QEMU
- Affects QEMU < v6.0.0, Fixed in v7.1.0-rc0affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:10	qemu	before 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10	1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u10
Debian:12	qemu	before 1:7.1+dfsg-1	1:7.1+dfsg-1
openSUSE:Leap 15.3	qemu	before 3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2	3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2
openSUSE:Leap 15.3	qemu	before 4.2.1-150200.69.1	4.2.1-150200.69.1
openSUSE:Leap 15.3	qemu-linux-user	before 5.2.0-150300.118.2	5.2.0-150300.118.2
openSUSE:Leap 15.3	qemu-testsuite	before 5.2.0-150300.118.5	5.2.0-150300.118.5
openSUSE:Leap 15.4	qemu	before 6.2.0-150400.37.8.2	6.2.0-150400.37.8.2
openSUSE:Leap 15.4	qemu-linux-user	before 6.2.0-150400.37.8.1	6.2.0-150400.37.8.1
openSUSE:Leap 15.4	qemu-testsuite	before 6.2.0-150400.37.8.4	6.2.0-150400.37.8.4
openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.2	qemu	before 5.2.0-150300.118.3	5.2.0-150300.118.3
openSUSE:Tumbleweed	qemu	before 7.0.0-53.1	7.0.0-53.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS	qemu	before 3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2	3.1.1.1-150100.80.43.2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS	qemu	before 4.2.1-150200.69.1	4.2.1-150200.69.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS	qemu	before 5.2.0-150300.121.2	5.2.0-150300.121.2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3	qemu	before 6.2.0-150400.37.8.2	6.2.0-150400.37.8.2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3	qemu	before 5.2.0-150300.118.3	5.2.0-150300.118.3
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL	qemu	before 2.6.2-41.76.1	2.6.2-41.76.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5	qemu	before 3.1.1.1-72.1	3.1.1.1-72.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5	qemu	before 3.1.1.1-66.1	3.1.1.1-66.1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-3929Aug 25, 2022 · A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the NVM Express Controller (NVME) emulation in QEMU.
32Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2021-3735Aug 26, 2022 · A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU.
17Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-0358Aug 29, 2022 · A flaw was found in the QEMU virtio-fs shared file system daemon (virtiofsd) implementation.
31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
debian:qemu	1:7.1+dfsg-1 · Debian:12	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:qemu	4.2.1-150200.69.1 · openSUSE:Leap 15.3	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:qemu-linux-user	5.2.0-150300.118.2 · openSUSE:Leap 15.3	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:qemu-testsuite	5.2.0-150300.118.5 · openSUSE:Leap 15.3	Package registry (OSV)
suse:qemu	4.2.1-150200.69.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

qemu-project/qemucommit 4367a20

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

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References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0216

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