World Read/Write Permissions in Ubuntu's libvirt Control Socket: A Path to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Code Execution

CVE-2020-15708 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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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