CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000256
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
libvirt version 2.3.0 and later is vulnerable to a bad default configuration of "verify-peer=no" passed to QEMU by libvirt resulting in a failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates by default.
Affected configurations
• redhat libvirt (>= 2.3.0 < 3.9.0)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4003 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000256 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1556251.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2017-October/msg00001.html Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4003 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000256 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1556251.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2017-October/msg00001.html Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory