CVE-2013-4236

Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization: 3.0, 3.2

References

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fe1615b7949999fc9abd896bde63bf24f8431d6
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996166

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