What is CVE-2018-10908?

CVE-2018-10908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ovirt Vdsm, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-09.

How severe is CVE-2018-10908?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Ovirt Vdsm

CVE-2018-10908

It was found that vdsm before version 4.20.37 invokes qemu-img on untrusted inputs without limiting resources. By uploading a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause the qemu-img process to consume unbounded amounts of memory of CPU time, causing a denial of service condition that could potentially impact other users of the host.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2018-08-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-23.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ovirt Vdsm
[Unknown] Vdsm — versions 4.20.37
Red Hat Virtualization — versions 4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html (Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
gerrit.ovirt.org/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10908?: CVE-2018-10908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ovirt Vdsm, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-08-09.
How severe is CVE-2018-10908?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.