Libvirt Service Arbitrary File Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2020-15708

9.3CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

Ubuntu

Status
Libvirt
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 November 2020

What is CVE-2020-15708?

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.

Affected Version(s)

libvirt < 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4452-1
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.3
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Trent Shea
.