CVE-2020-25637

medium

Description

A double free memory issue was found to occur in the libvirt API, in versions before 6.8.0, responsible for requesting information about network interfaces of a running QEMU domain. This flaw affects the polkit access control driver. Specifically, clients connecting to the read-write socket with limited ACL permissions could use this flaw to crash the libvirt daemon, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-06

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881037

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00073.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00072.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium