Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store…

Description

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• FEDORA-2010-10960 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• USN-1008-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• FEDORA-2010-11021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://libvirt.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• USN-1008-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2010:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-1008-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• ADV-2010-2763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 02:25 UTC.