Security Features in libvirt - CVE-2016-10746
Published: April 18, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31094
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10746
CWE-ID: CWE-254
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
libvirt-domain.c in libvirt before 1.3.1 supports virDomainGetTime API calls by guest agents with an RO connection, even though an RW connection was supposed to be required, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-3886.
Affected software
libvirt
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10746
Install update from vendor's website.
libvirt - update to 1.3.1