CVE-2010-2238 Path traversal in n/a
Guest OS users can read arbitrary host files due to improper handling of disk-image backing stores in libvirt.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2010-2238?
CVE-2010-2238 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Aug 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2238?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Libvirt Libvirt.
How do I fix CVE-2010-2238?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2010-2238 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2238 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2238, GHSA-xvqx-w57v-q544.