01 Record
CVE-2011-0011
qemu-kvm before 0.11.0 disables VNC authentication when the password is cleared, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish VNC sessions.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
qemu-kvm before 0.11.0 disables VNC authentication when the password is cleared, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish VNC sessions.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.29% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 70.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-06-21 15:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:36Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-12-07
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287Improper AuthenticationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 89bcb792658c30ac7b4752bffb02b2621bc4b0bf596e9f20c61c58bc418a2648
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com43733http://secunia.com/advisories/43733
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110110 Re: CVE request: qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authenticationhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/11/1
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110112 Re: CVE request: qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authenticationhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/12/2
- secunia.com44393http://secunia.com/advisories/44393
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110110 CVE request: qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authenticationhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/10/3
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2011:0345http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0345.html
- www.osvdb.org70992http://www.osvdb.org/70992
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comqemu-vnc-security-bypass(65215)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65215
- secunia.com42830http://secunia.com/advisories/42830
- ubuntu.comUSN-1063-1http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1063-1
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/697197
- secunia.com43272http://secunia.com/advisories/43272