CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-5177

1.2 LOW Published 2014-08-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-08-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

libvirt 1.0.0 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5, when fine grained access control is enabled, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virDomainDefineXML, (2) virNetworkCreateXML, (3) virNetworkDefineXML, (4) virStoragePoolCreateXML, (5) virStoragePoolDefineXML, (6) virStorageVolCreateXML, (7) virDomainCreateXML, (8) virNodeDeviceCreateXML, (9) virInterfaceDefineXML, (10) virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom, (11) virConnectDomainXMLFromNative, (12) virConnectDomainXMLToNative, (13) virSecretDefineXML, (14) virNWFilterDefineXML, (15) virDomainSnapshotCreateXML, (16) virDomainSaveImageDefineXML, (17) virDomainCreateXMLWithFiles, (18) virConnectCompareCPU, or (19) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2014-0179 per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise virtualization 3.0 • opensuse opensuse 12.3 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • redhat enterprise linux 6.0 • redhat libvirt 1.0.0 • redhat libvirt 1.0.1 • redhat libvirt 1.0.2 • redhat libvirt 1.0.3 • redhat libvirt 1.0.4 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.1 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.2 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.3 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.4 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.5 • redhat libvirt 1.0.5.6 • redhat libvirt 1.0.6 • redhat libvirt 1.1.0 • redhat libvirt 1.1.1 • redhat libvirt 1.1.2 • redhat libvirt 1.1.3 • redhat libvirt 1.1.4 • redhat libvirt 1.2.0 • redhat libvirt 1.2.1 • redhat libvirt 1.2.2 • redhat libvirt 1.2.3 • redhat libvirt 1.2.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References