Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2010-2238 (CCN-60660)

Assigned:2010-07-27
Published:2010-07-27
Updated:2010-10-30
Summary:Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
CVSS v3 Severity:4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availibility (A): None
CVSS v2 Severity:4.4 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
3.3 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:TF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
2.1 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
1.6 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:U/RL:TF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): None
Vulnerability Type:CWE-264
Vulnerability Consequences:Bypass Security
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2010-2238

Source: CCN
Type: libvirt Web site
libvirt: The virtualization API

Source: CCN
Type: libvirt GIT Repository
libvirt.org Git - libvirt.git/summary

Source: MISC
Type: Vendor Advisory
http://libvirt.org/news.html

Source: FEDORA
Type: UNKNOWN
FEDORA-2010-10960

Source: FEDORA
Type: UNKNOWN
FEDORA-2010-11021

Source: SUSE
Type: UNKNOWN
SUSE-SR:2010:017

Source: CCN
Type: SA40758
libvirt iptables Rules and Disk Format Security Bypass

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-1008-1

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-1008-2

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-1008-3

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 67298
libvirt on Red Hat Linux Disk Backing-store Format Disk-image Backing Stores Recursion Guest OS Arbitrary File Access

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 74559
libvirt security/security_manager.c virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData Function Off-by-one Arbitrary File Access

Source: VUPEN
Type: UNKNOWN
ADV-2010-2763

Source: CCN
Type: Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 607811
CVE-2010-2238 libvirt: ignoring defined disk backing store format when recursing into disk image backing stores

Source: CONFIRM
Type: UNKNOWN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
libvirt-disk-format-security-bypass(60660)

Source: SUSE
Type: SUSE-SR:2010:017
(java-1_4_2-ibm, sudo, libpng, php5, tgt, iscsitarget, aria2, pcsc-lite, tomcat5, tomcat6, lvm2, libvirt, rpm, libtiff, dovecot12)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:libvirt:libvirt:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    Oval Definitions
    Definition IDClassTitleLast Modified
    oval:org.opensuse.security:def:20102238
    V
    CVE-2010-2238
    2022-05-20
    oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12561
    P
    USN-1008-2 -- virtinst update
    2014-06-30
    oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13975
    P
    USN-1152-1 -- libvirt vulnerabilities
    2014-06-30
    oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13033
    P
    USN-1008-3 -- libvirt update
    2014-06-30
    oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13109
    P
    USN-1008-1 -- libvirt vulnerabilities
    2014-06-30
    oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13143
    P
    USN-1008-4 -- libvirt regression
    2014-06-30
    BACK
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.2
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.3
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.4
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.5
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.6
    libvirt libvirt 0.7.7
    libvirt libvirt 0.8.0
    libvirt libvirt 0.8.1
    libvirt libvirt 0.8.2
    libvirt libvirt 0.5.1
    libvirt libvirt 0.6.1