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CVE-2020-10701

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2020
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

Plain text

CNA source text (English)

A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout. This flaw allows read-only connections to adjust the time that libvirt waits for the QEMU guest agent to respond to agent commands. Depending on the timeout value that is set, this flaw can make guest agent commands fail because the agent cannot respond in time. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to set the response timeout for all guest agent messages to zero, potentially leading to a denial of service. This flaw affects libvirt versions before 6.2.0.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

libvirt

Vendor
n/a
Product
libvirt
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
Unknown
libvirt · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
libvirt 6.2.0affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed