Information Exposure Affecting libvirt package, versions [,2.2)


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-2327402
  • published29 Dec 2021
  • disclosed20 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Aug 2018

CVE-2015-5160  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libvirt to version 2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure libvirt before 2.2 includes Ceph credentials on the qemu command line when using RADOS Block Device (aka RBD), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a process listing.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1