Critical vulnerability in the open-source QEMU hypervisor lets attackers break out of a virtual machine, execute code on a host machine and access all the other VMs on the host.. A zero-day vulnerability affecting a variety of virtualization platforms and cloud services allows attackers to break out of a virtual machine (VM), execute code on the host machine and access any other VMs running on it, CrowdStrike researchers revealed today. The link for this article located at Dark Reading is no longer available. . An undisclosed vulnerability in QEMU enables cybercriminals to run arbitrary code on the host system, impacting various cloud services and virtual machines.. QEMU Attack, Hypervisor Threat, Cloud VM Vulnerability. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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