CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-63622

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-08-10 Modified 2026-10-05 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-08-10
Last modified
2026-10-05
Assigner
[email protected]
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
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined `swtpm` user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the `virFileChownFiles()` function. By planting a symbolic link within the `swtpm` state directory, the attacker could trick the root-level libvirt daemon into changing the ownership of an arbitrary file to the `swtpm` user. This allows for privilege escalation from the `swtpm` sandbox to root-level file ownership control.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References