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CVE-2013-4154
The qemuAgentCommand function in libvirt before 1.1.1, when a guest agent is not configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The qemuAgentCommand function in libvirt before 1.1.1, when a guest agent is not configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to "agent based cpu (un)plug," as demonstrated by the "virsh vcpucount foobar --guest" command.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=96518d4316b711c72205117f8d5c967d5127bbb6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://libvirt.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984821 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986386 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130719 Re: CVE request -- libvirt: crash of libvirtd without guest agent configuration (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-2013-4080 (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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