Medium severity · published Nov 26, 2020
CVE-2020-25652
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in…
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
SP
Spice-vdagent · Spice-space
through 0.20.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25652
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25652
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886366
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GQT56LATVTB2DJOVVJOKQVMVUXYCT2VB/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIWJ2EIQXWEA2VDBODEATHAT37X4CREP/
Exploit
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/1
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