ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-10168
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168
Upstream
Published
2019-08-02T13:15:12.247Z
Modified
2026-07-06T00:31:20.148022101Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU() and virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU() libvirt APIs, 4.x.x before 4.10.1 and 5.x.x before 5.4.1, accept an "emulator" argument to specify the program providing emulation for a domain. Since v1.2.19, libvirt will execute that program to probe the domain's capabilities. Read-only clients could specify an arbitrary path for this argument, causing libvirtd to execute a crafted executable with its own privileges.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"
Alpine:v3.11
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"
Alpine:v3.12
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"
Alpine:v3.7
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"
Alpine:v3.8
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"
Alpine:v3.9
libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.0.0
Fixed
5.5.0-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2019-10168.json"