CVE-2020-15708 (GCVE-0-2020-15708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-06 01:40 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:37
VLAI
Title
Libvirt Service Arbitrary File Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary
Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4452-1 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Ubuntu libvirt Affected: unspecified , < 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-08-04 00:00
Credits
Trent Shea
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