PT-2015-6847
CVE-2015-5313
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Published
2015-12-18
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
2.5
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
libvirt (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue allows local users with storage vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect. This is due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage backend fs.c.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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