Vulnerability in Red Hat Libvirt

CVE-2013-1766

libvirt 1.0.2 and earlier sets the group owner to kvm for device files, which allows local users to write to these files via unspecified vectors.

Published 2013-03-20 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (29.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Libvirt — versions 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/58178 (vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2650 (vendor-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/52628 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)