Vulnerabilites related to Ubuntu - libvirt
CVE-2020-15708 (GCVE-0-2020-15708)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-06 01:40
Modified
2024-09-16 17:37
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CWE
- CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary
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.
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