CVE-2010-2238

MediumCVSS 4.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.4/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Aug 19, 2010
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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