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CVE-2010-2239
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows…
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- ADV-2010-2062 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-10960 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-1008-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-11021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607812 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://libvirt.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-1008-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1008-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2251 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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