CVE-2020-25652

MEDIUM

spice-vdagent < 0.20.0 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via UNIX Domain Socket

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/04/1
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886366
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 34.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
spice-space/spice-vdagent < 0.20.0
Published Nov 26, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026