CVE-2013-6456
The LXC driver (lxc/lxc_driver.c) in libvirt 1.0.1 through 1.2.1 allows local users to (1) delete arbitrary host devices via the virDomainDeviceDettach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; (2) create arbitrary nodes (mknod) via the virDomainDeviceAttach API and a symlink attack on /dev in the container; and cause a denial of service (shutdown or reboot host OS) via the (3) virDomainShutdown or (4) virDomainReboot API and a symlink attack on /dev/initctl in the container, related to "paths under /proc/$PID/root" and the virInitctlSetRunLevel function.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (48th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-6263)
- Published
- April 15, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-6263 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
References
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fc590ad9f4
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/129199.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56187(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56215(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://security.libvirt.org/2013/0018.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65743
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732394
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045643
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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