VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-3840

CVSS score5.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-03-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt before version 5.0.0 in the way it gets interface information through the QEMU agent. An attacker in a guest VM can use this flaw to crash libvirtd and cause a denial of service.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references