Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in libvirt - CVE-2013-4400
Published: December 9, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42268
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4400
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
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 execute arbitrary code.
virt-login-shell in libvirt 1.1.2 through 1.1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via unspecified environment variables or command-line arguments.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4400
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=3e2f27e13b94f7302ad948bcacb5e02c859a25fc
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=8c3586ea755c40d5e01b22cb7b5c1e668cdec994
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=b7fcc799ad5d8f3e55b89b94e599903e3c092467
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121370.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015228