CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5008

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-07-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-07-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

libvirt before 2.0.0 improperly disables password checking when the password on a VNC server is set to an empty string, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish a VNC session by connecting to the server.

Affected configurations

• redhat libvirt (<= 1.3.5) • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References