CVE-2010-2242
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
Red Hat libvirt 0.2.0 through 0.8.2 creates iptables rules with improper mappings of privileged source ports, which allows guest OS users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging IP address and source-port values, as demonstrated by copying and deleting an NFS directory tree.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (37th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2254)
- 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-2010-2254 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
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
- libvirt / libvirt
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- libvirt / libvirt
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- 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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2763
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/591943
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602455
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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