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01 Record

CVE-2020-15708

Libvirt Service Arbitrary File Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: canonical
CNA base score9.3 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Libvirt Service Arbitrary File Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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
0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 33.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
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
2020-11-06 01:40Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 17:37Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-07-14
Assigning CNA
canonical
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Critical (CVSS 9.3)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical ResourceClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
3113c0fc96390c5bcd2359130b689dd4cd1602a324c31dc4eb4c213875340e32

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Ubuntulibvirt< 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • libvirt
    Fixed in 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.3

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.