VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15114

CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability1.70%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

When libvirtd is configured by OSP director (tripleo-heat-templates) to use the TLS transport it defaults to the same certificate authority as all non-libvirtd services. As no additional authentication is configured this allows these services to connect to libvirtd (which is equivalent to root access). If a vulnerability exists in another service it could, combined with this flaw, be exploited to escalate privileges to gain control over compute nodes.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

Primary references