CVE-2019-10161 Information

Description

It was discovered that libvirtd before versions 4.10.1 and 5.4.1 would permit read-only clients to use the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc() API specifying an arbitrary path which would be accessed with the permissions of the libvirtd process. An attacker with access to the libvirtd socket could use this to probe the existence of arbitrary files cause denial of service or cause libvirtd to execute arbitrary programs.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/libvirt-privesc-vulnerabilities https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10161 https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=aed6a032cead4386472afb24b16196579e239580 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4047-2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8