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CVE-2014-3657

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3657 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libvirt versions prior to 1.2.9. Specifically, the virDomainListPopulate function fails to properly clean up a domain list lock, allowing remote attackers to cause a deadlock by providing a NULL value in the virConnectListAllDomains API command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0279 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.10.2-46.el6_6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:1.1.1-29.el7_0.3
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.1Fixed in: libvirt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3657Moderate

libvirt: domain_conf: domain deadlock DoS

Oct 1, 2014

References

libvirt.org / git
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-10/msg00017.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1352.html
secunia.com / advisories/60291
secunia.com / advisories/62303
security.libvirt.org / 2014/0005.html
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2404-1