CVE-2014-7823 (GCVE-0-2014-7823)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:03
VLAI
Summary
The virDomainGetXMLDesc API in Libvirt before 1.2.11 allows remote read-only users to obtain the VNC password by using the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE flag, which triggers the use of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/62058 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/60895 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/62303 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2404-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/60010 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0007.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2014-11-01 00:00
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