CVE-2020-10701

Medium

Description

A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout. This flaw allows read-only connections to adjust the time that libvirt waits for the QEMU guest agent to respond to agent commands. Depending on the timeout value that is set, this flaw can make guest agent commands fail because the agent cannot respond in time. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to set the response timeout for all guest agent messages to zero, potentially leading to a denial of service. This flaw affects libvirt versions before 6.2.0.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Libvirt
PublishedMay 27, 2021
First seenMay 27, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • redhat libvirt6.2.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat libvirtv < 6.2.06.2.0

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