CVE-2020-15708

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 6, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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