Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions [,0.9.12.2)[0.10.2.0,0.10.2.8)[1.0.5.0,1.0.5.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317423
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2013

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

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 0.9.12.2, 0.10.2.8, 1.0.5.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass 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.

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