A flaw was found in the libvirt nwfilter driver. The virNWFilterObjListNumOfNWFilters method failed to acquire the driver->nwfilters mutex before iterating over virNWFilterObj instances. There was no protection to stop another thread from concurrently modifying the driver->nwfilters object. This flaw allows a malicious, unprivileged user to exploit this issue via libvirt's API virConnectNumOfNWFilters to crash the network filter management daemon (libvirtd/virtnwfilterd).
Source: MITRE
Published: 2022-03-25
Updated: 2022-10-27
Type: CWE-667
Base Score: 4
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Impact Score: 1.4
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: MEDIUM