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CVE-2020-15708: Libvirt Service Arbitrary File Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2020-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-732
Description
Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 20.04
References
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