CVE-2014-5177
libvirt 1.0.0 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5, when fine grained access control is enabled, allows local users to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference to the (1) virDomainDefineXML, (2) virNetworkCreateXML, (3) virNetworkDefineXML, (4) virStoragePoolCreateXML, (5) virStoragePoolDefineXML, (6) virStorageVolCreateXML, (7) virDomainCreateXML, (8) virNodeDeviceCreateXML, (9) virInterfaceDefineXML, (10) virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom, (11) virConnectDomainXMLFromNative, (12) virConnectDomainXMLToNative, (13) virSecretDefineXML, (14) virNWFilterDefineXML, (15) virDomainSnapshotCreateXML, (16) virDomainSaveImageDefineXML, (17) virDomainCreateXMLWithFiles, (18) virConnectCompareCPU, or (19) virConnectBaselineCPU API method, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2014-0179 per ADT3 due to different affected versions of some vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (45th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-5075)
- Published
- August 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-5075 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise virtualization
- 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
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
- redhat / libvirt
References
- http://libvirt.org/news.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00048.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00052.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0560.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
- http://security.libvirt.org/2014/0003.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2366-1
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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