CVE-2016-5008

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5008
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5008.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5008
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-07-13T15:59:05.873Z
Modified
2026-04-11T16:50:46.296624Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libvirt before 2.0.0 improperly disables password checking when the password on a VNC server is set to an empty string, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and establish a VNC session by connecting to the server.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libvirt/libvirt

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7324444bc70dcc3e2d1fe0baa640712efb99e273
Last affected
5f6025945bf0f98debcd4ad8cf064e9cadca1cc9
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.3.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "8.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
CVE-2008-5086
CVE-2010-2238
CVE-2010-2242
CVE-2011-1146
CVE-2011-1486
CVE-2011-2178
CVE-2012-3411
CVE-2012-3445
CVE-2012-4423
CVE-2013-0170
CVE-2013-1962
CVE-2013-2218
CVE-2013-2230
CVE-2013-4153
CVE-2013-4154
CVE-2013-4239
CVE-2013-4291
CVE-2013-4292
CVE-2013-4296
CVE-2013-4297
CVE-2013-4311
CVE-2013-4399
CVE-2013-4400-1
CVE-2013-4400-2
CVE-2013-4400-3
CVE-2013-4401
CVE-2013-5651
CVE-2013-6436
CVE-2013-6456
CVE-2013-6457
CVE-2013-6458-1
CVE-2013-6458-2
CVE-2013-6458-3
CVE-2013-6458-4
CVE-2013-7336
CVE-2014-0028
CVE-2014-0179
CVE-2014-1447-1
CVE-2014-1447-2
CVE-2014-3633
CVE-2014-3657
CVE-2014-7823
CVE-2014-8131
CVE-2014-8131-1
CVE-2014-8131-2
CVE-2014-8135
CVE-2014-8136
CVE-2015-0236
CVE-2015-0236-1
CVE-2015-0236-2
CVE-2015-5247-1
CVE-2015-5247-2
CVE-2015-5247-3
CVE-2015-5313
CVE-2016-5008
CVE-2017-1000256
CVE-2017-2635
CVE-2018-1064
CVE-2018-5748
CVE-2018-6764
CVE-2019-10132
CVE-2019-10161
CVE-2019-10166
CVE-2019-10167
CVE-2019-10168
CVE-2019-3886
CVE-2020-14339
CVE-2020-25637
CVE-2021-3631
CVE-2021-3667
LIBVIRT_0_0_3
LIBVIRT_0_0_4
LIBVIRT_0_0_5
LIBVIRT_0_1_0
LIBVIRT_0_1_1
LIBVIRT_0_1_10
LIBVIRT_0_1_11
LIBVIRT_0_1_3
LIBVIRT_0_1_4
LIBVIRT_0_1_6
LIBVIRT_0_1_7
LIBVIRT_0_1_8
LIBVIRT_0_1_9
LIBVIRT_0_2_0
LIBVIRT_0_2_1
LIBVIRT_0_2_2
LIBVIRT_0_3_0
LIBVIRT_0_3_1
LIBVIRT_0_3_2
LIBVIRT_0_3_3
LIBVIRT_0_4_1
LIBVIRT_0_4_2
LIBVIRT_0_4_4
LIBVIRT_0_4_6
LIBVIRT_0_5_0
LIBVIRT_0_5_1
LIBVIRT_0_6_0
LIBVIRT_0_6_1
LIBVIRT_0_6_2
LIBVIRT_0_6_3
LIBVIRT_0_6_4
LIBVIRT_0_6_5
LIBVIR_0_0_1
LIBVIR_0_0_2
LIVIRT_0_2_3
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Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5008.json"