Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl package, versions <5.1.0-8.24.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBVIRTDAEMONDRIVERLIBXL-2698195
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2020

Introduced: 26 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl to version 5.1.0-8.24.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl package and not the libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

CVSS Scores

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