Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data Affecting libvirt package, versions [6.2.0,6.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317450
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed27 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2021

CVE-2020-14301  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-212  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 6.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Cross-boundary Removal of Sensitive Data. An information disclosure vulnerability was found in libvirt in versions before 6.3.0. HTTP cookies used to access network-based disks were saved in the XML dump of the guest domain. This flaw allows an attacker to access potentially sensitive information in the domain configuration via the dumpxml command.

CVSS Scores

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