Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libvirt  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBVIRT-9846257
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2013

Introduced: 18 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-4311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by RHEL.

libvirt 1.0.5.x before 1.0.5.6, 0.10.2.x before 0.10.2.8, and 0.9.12.x before 0.9.12.2 allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition in pkcheck via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.