Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libvirt package, versions [,0.9.11.1)


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-2317439
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2693  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 0.9.11.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass libvirt, possibly before 0.9.12, does not properly assign USB devices to virtual machines when multiple devices have the same vendor and product ID, which might cause the wrong device to be associated with a guest and might allow local users to access unintended USB devices.

CVSS Scores

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