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CVE-2010-2239

Published: Aug 19, 2010Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-264
NVD MITRE
4.4CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 75.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:MAu:SC:CI:NA:N
Exploitability
AV:LAccess Vector
Local
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:SAuthentication
Single
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:NIntegrity
None
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected Products

libvirtlibvirt
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
n/an/a
libvirtoss-projectCloud & SaaS

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://libvirt.org/news.html
libvirt.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
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Timeline

Published
Aug 19, 2010
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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