Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libvirt-python package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBVIRTPYTHON-13914319
  • published12 Nov 2025
  • disclosed7 Nov 2025

Introduced: 7 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-12748  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libvirt-python.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-python package and not the libvirt-python package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was discovered in libvirt in the XML file processing. More specifically, the parsing of user provided XML files was performed before the ACL checks. A malicious user with limited permissions could exploit this flaw by submitting a specially crafted XML file, causing libvirt to allocate too much memory on the host. The excessive memory consumption could lead to a libvirt process crash on the host, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1