CVE-2010-2239
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2251)
- Published
- August 19, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2251 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
References
- http://libvirt.org/news.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-2
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1008-3
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0615.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2062
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607812
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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