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    CVE-2010-2238

    Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

    Published:Jul 12, 2010
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Aug 19, 2010
    EPSS Score:0.0007
    CVSS Score:4.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Libvirt
    Product
    Libvirt

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://libvirt.org/news.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811
    http://libvirt.org/news.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
    http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607811

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High