CVE-2014-5177

Description

libvirt 1.0.0 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5, when fine grained access control is enabled, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virDomainDefineXML, (2) virNetworkCreateXML, (3) virNetworkDefineXML, (4) virStoragePoolCreateXML, (5) virStoragePoolDefineXML, (6) virStorageVolCreateXML, (7) virDomainCreateXML, (8) virNodeDeviceCreateXML, (9) virInterfaceDefineXML, (10) virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom, (11) virConnectDomainXMLFromNative, (12) virConnectDomainXMLToNative, (13) virSecretDefineXML, (14) virNWFilterDefineXML, (15) virDomainSnapshotCreateXML, (16) virDomainSaveImageDefineXML, (17) virDomainCreateXMLWithFiles, (18) virConnectCompareCPU, or (19) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2014-0179 per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2366-1

http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0003.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/60895

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0560.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00052.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00048.html

http://libvirt.org/news.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3