Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions [1.1.2,1.1.4-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317424
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Dec 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-863  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 1.1.4-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass virt-login-shell in libvirt 1.1.2 through 1.1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via unspecified environment variables or command-line arguments.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1