Vulnerability in Red Hat Libvirt
CVE-2013-4401
The virConnectDomainXMLToNative API function in libvirt 1.1.0 through 1.1.3 checks for the connect:read permission instead of the connect:write permission, which allows attackers to gain domain:write privileges and execute Qemu binaries via crafted XML. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (76.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Libvirt — versions 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/60895 (third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch)
- wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
- libvirt.org/git/
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2026-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/55210 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029241 (vdb-entry)