CVE-2020-15708 CRITICAL

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

Vendor Ubuntu

Product libvirt

Weakness CWE-732

Published November 6, 2020

Last update September 16, 2024

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CVSS base score

9.3/10

Attack vector Local

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 6, 2020 CVE published

September 16, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15708 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/732.html

Related vulnerabilities

Identifiers

CVE CVE-2020-15708

CWE CWE-732

CVSS 9.3 / CRITICAL

Affected versions