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CVE-2010-2242
Red Hat libvirt 0.2.0 through 0.8.2 creates iptables rules with improper mappings of privileged source ports, which allows guest OS users…
Low2.1EPSS 0.42%
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- redhat
Description
Red Hat libvirt 0.2.0 through 0.8.2 creates iptables rules with improper mappings of privileged source ports, which allows guest OS users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging IP address and source-port values, as demonstrated by copying and deleting an NFS directory tree.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- ADV-2010-2062 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://libvirt.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 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
- RHSA-2010:0615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/591943 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1008-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602455 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
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