Directory Traversal Affecting libvirt package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBVIRT-2327403
  • published29 Dec 2021
  • disclosed11 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-5313  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libvirt.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

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