CVE-2011-1773

virt-v2v before 0.8.4 does not preserve the VNC console password when converting a guest, which allows local users to bypass the intended VNC authentication by connecting without a password.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2014-02-08

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-255

Affected products

• Virt-v2v (Matthew Booth)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1615.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47086
• http://www.osvdb.org/77558
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702754
• https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-v2v.git/commit/?id=7e9393129116699d1228bb02b9f65b78584582c1