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CVE-2015-5313

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

Affected products

• libvirt: all versions

References

• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=034e47c338b13a95cf02106a3af912c1c5f818d7
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174404.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html
• http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0004.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90913
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-10
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00473.html
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=034e47c338b13a95cf02106a3af912c1c5f818d7
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174404.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html
• http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0004.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90913

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