Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions <0.8.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-LIBVIRT-18579036
  • published7 Aug 2026
  • disclosed19 Aug 2010

Introduced: 19 Aug 2010

CVE-2010-2239  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest libvirt to version 0.8.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1