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CVE-2016-10746

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

libvirt-domain.c in libvirt before 1.3.1 supports virDomainGetTime API calls by guest agents with an RO connection, even though an RW connection was supposed to be required, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-3886.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• libvirt: before 1.3.1 — fixed in 1.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libvirt 1.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/506e9d6c2d4baaf580d489fff0690c0ff2ff588f
• https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/compare/11288f5...8fd6867
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00032.html
• https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/506e9d6c2d4baaf580d489fff0690c0ff2ff588f
• https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/compare/11288f5...8fd6867
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00032.html

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