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CVE-2013-1962
The remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function in the storage pool manager in libvirt 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function in the storage pool manager in libvirt 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via a large number of requests "to list all volumes for the particular pool."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% 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 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References15
- FEDORA-2013-8635 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ca697e90d5bd6a6dfb94bfb6d4438bdf9a44b739 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130516 CVE-2013-1962 libvirt: DoS (max count of open files exhaustion) due sockets leak in the storage pool (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8681 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 93451 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953107 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1895-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 59937 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 53475 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 53440 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1028577 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0885 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- libvirt-cve20131962-dos(84341) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [libvir-list] 20130516 [libvirt] [PATCH] daemon: fix leak after listing all volumes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2013-1952 (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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