CVE-2020-14339

Publication date 3 December 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for `/dev/mapper/control` into the QEMU process. This file descriptor allows for privileged operations to happen against the device-mapper on the host. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to perform operations outside of their standard permissions, potentially causing serious damage to the host operating system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libvirt	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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introduced in 6.2.0

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libvirt	Upstream: https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=22494556542c676d1b9e7f1c1f2ea13ac17e1e3e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H