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CVE-2013-4291

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The virSecurityManagerSetProcessLabel function in libvirt 0.10.2.7, 1.0.5.5, and 1.1.1, when the domain has read an uid:gid label, does not properly set group memberships, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected products

• libvirt: 0.10.2.7, 1.0.5.5, 1.1.1

References

• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fe11d34a6d46d6641ce90dc665164fda7bb6bff8
• http://libvirt.org/news.html
• http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006509
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fe11d34a6d46d6641ce90dc665164fda7bb6bff8
• http://libvirt.org/news.html
• http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006509

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