Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in libvirt - CVE-2019-10132

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in libvirt - CVE-2019-10132

Published: May 24, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18596
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10132
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: libvirt.org
Affected software:
libvirt

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a missing SocketMode configuration parameter within the in the virtlockd-admin.socket and virtlogd-admin.socket systemd units. A local user can perform administrative tasks against virtlockd and virtlogd daemons.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-10132

Install updates from vendor's repository.

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