CVE-2010-2239: libvirt
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-2239 is a medium (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability in libvirt. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 4.4, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 19-08-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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 metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.33%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
26%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.33% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- libvirt< 0.8.3-1
Libvirt1 product
- libvirt0.6.0 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.6.3 | 0.6.4 | 0.6.5 | 0.7.0 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.3 | 0.7.4 | 0.7.5 | 0.7.6 | 0.7.7 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.1 | 0.8.2
2 vendors · 2 products
References
12 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044520.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044579.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607812X Refsource CONFIRM
