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CVE-2020-25652
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.44%
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- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
spice-vdagent
- affected spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior
References (5)
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886366 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210113 [SECURITY] [DLA 2524-1] spice-vdagent security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-09ce0cdfac (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-510977db25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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