CVE-2026-12080: Qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.3)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Patch Tuesday
2026-Jul
Released
2026-07-23
EPSS Score
0.18% (percentile: 7.9%)

Affected Products (1)

Open Source Software

  • azl3 qemu 9.1.0-10 on Azure Linux 3.0

Revision History

  • 2026-07-23: Information published.