VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-15708

CVSS score9.3 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@ubuntu.com: CWE-732
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-732

Primary references