CVE-2019-3886

An incorrect permissions check was discovered in libvirt 4.8.0 and above. The readonly permission was allowed to invoke APIs depending on the guest agent, which could lead to potentially disclosing unintended information or denial of service by causing libvirt to block.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-04-04

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-862

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Leap (Opensuse)
• Libvirt (Redhat)
• Libvirt (The Libvirt Project)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00105.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107777
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3723
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3886
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CYMNKXAUBZCFBBPFH64FJP…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5DHYIFECZ7BMVXK4EP4FD…
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4021-1/