VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-25650

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled file transfers from the host system to the virtual machine. Any unprivileged local guest user with access to the UNIX domain socket path `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock` could use this flaw to perform a memory denial of service for spice-vdagentd or even other processes in the VM system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and previous versions.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-770
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-770

Primary references