DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10701

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10701
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10701.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10701
Upstream
Published
2021-05-27T19:15:07Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:37Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.0-7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.0-7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.0-7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libvirt

Package

Name
libvirt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libvirt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0.0-7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}