CVE-2020-14339

HIGH

libvirt 6.2.0-6.6.9 - Privilege Escalation via /dev/mapper/control File Descriptor Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in libvirt, where it leaked a file descriptor for `/dev/mapper/control` into the QEMU process. This file descriptor allows for privileged operations to happen against the device-mapper on the host. This flaw allows a malicious guest user or process to perform operations outside of their standard permissions, potentially causing serious damage to the host operating system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-22
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-06
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860069

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 33.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (2)
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/libvirt 6.2.0 - 6.7.0
Published Dec 03, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026