Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 2 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2019-20485 CVE-2020-10703 |
CWE-ID | CWE-399 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
libvirt (Red Hat package) Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component |
Vendor | Red Hat Inc. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
EUVDB-ID: #VU27545
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20485
CWE-ID:
CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources with the qemu/qemu_driver.c in libvirt while holding of a monitor job during a query to a guest agent, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (API blockage).
Install updates from vendor's website.
libvirt (Red Hat package): 4.5.0-10.el7 - 4.5.0-23.el7_7
External linkshttp://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4000
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU28191
Risk: Low
CVSSv3.1: 2.4 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10703
CWE-ID:
CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources with the application when performing pool lookups within the storagePoolLookupByTargetPath() function in storage/storage_driver.c. A remote user can create a pool with empty target path and then perform search for an empty target, which results in libvirt crash.
Install updates from vendor's website.
libvirt (Red Hat package): 4.5.0-10.el7 - 4.5.0-23.el7_7
External linkshttp://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4000
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated privileged user via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.