Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions [,1.0.3)


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-2317435
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed20 Mar 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2013

CVE-2013-1766  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 1.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass libvirt 1.0.2 and earlier sets the group owner to kvm for device files, which allows local users to write to these files via unspecified vectors.

References

CVSS Scores

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