Vulnerability in Spice-Space Spice-Vdagent
CVE-2020-25653
A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.003 (25.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Spice-space Spice-vdagent
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 32, 33
- N/a Spice-vdagent — versions spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-25653?
- CVE-2020-25653 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spice-Space Spice-Vdagent, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2020-11-26.
- How severe is CVE-2020-25653?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.