Critical severity9.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 6, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-15708
CVE-2020-15708
Description
Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
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Affected products
32- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- Ubuntu/libvirtv5Range: unspecified
- osv-coords29 versionspkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/opensuse/libvirt&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/libvirt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/opensuse/libvirt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/libvirt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1
< 5.1.0-8.24.1+ 28 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-8.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-8.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-8.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-8.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-8.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-13.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-9.35.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-9.35.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-9.35.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-9.35.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.0-13.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.0-13.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.0-27.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.7.0-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-13.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.0-8.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-13.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.3.0-5.46.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.0-27.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.0-27.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0.0-27.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.0.0-lp152.9.6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.1.0-lp151.7.10.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4452-1nvdVendor Advisory
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