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CVE-2013-4401 (GCVE-0-2013-4401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-11-02 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
The virConnectDomainXMLToNative API function in libvirt 1.1.0 through 1.1.3 checks for the connect:read permission instead of the connect:write permission, which allows attackers to gain domain:write privileges and execute Qemu binaries via crafted XML. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/60895 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015259 x_refsource_MISC
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2026-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/55210 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029241 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2013-10-21 00:00
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