CVE-2020-10703A NULL pointer dereference was found in the libvirt API responsible introduced in upstream version 3.10.0, and fixed in libvirt 6.0.0, for…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A NULL pointer dereference was found in the libvirt API responsible introduced in upstream version 3.10.0, and fixed in libvirt 6.0.0, for fetching a storage pool based on its target path. In more detail, this flaw affects storage pools created without a target path such as network-based pools like gluster and RBD. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to crash the libvirt daemon, resulting in a potential denial of service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
References
References8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10703 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1790725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dfff16a7c261f8d28e3abe60a47165f845fa952f (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5d5c732d748d644ec14626bce448e84bdc4bd93e (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7aa0e8c0cb8a6293d0c6f7e3d29c13b96dec2129 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-5cd83efda7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20240401 [SECURITY] [DLA 3778-1] libvirt security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_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-2020-3134 (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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