CVE-2020-25653

MEDIUM

spice-vdagent < 0.20.0 - Race Condition via Client Connection Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as 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=1886372
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 24.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
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