Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in libvirt - CVE-2014-0028
Published: January 24, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42111
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0028
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libvirt.org
Affected software:
libvirt
libvirt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
libvirt 1.1.1 through 1.2.0 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the domain:getattr and connect:search_domains restrictions in ACLs and obtain sensitive domain object information via a request to the (1) virConnectDomainEventRegister and (2) virConnectDomainEventRegisterAny functions in the event registration API.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0028
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00060.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2093-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048637
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-January/msg00684.html