CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15708

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-732

Description

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References