Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libvirt package, versions [,1.2.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2317454
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-7823  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 1.2.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials. The virDomainGetXMLDesc API in Libvirt before 1.2.11 allows remote read-only users to obtain the VNC password by using the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE flag, which triggers the use of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag.

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