CVE-2013-0170

24

FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0170 is a use-after-free vulnerability in libvirt versions 1.0.x before 1.0.2 and other older branches, affecting products like Canonical, Fedora, and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code by causing errors during an RPC connection. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it has a medium attack complexity and can lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 0.9.6, < 0.9.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt::::::::
		>= 0.9.11, < 0.9.11.9CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt::::::::
		>= 0.10.2, < 0.10.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt::::::::
		>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt::::::::
		12.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

5.77%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

92.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0577 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.9.10-21.el6_3.8

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0170Important

libvirt: use-after-free in virNetMessageFree()

References

libvirt.org / git

libvirt.org / news.html

Release NotesVendor Advisory

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098326.html

Third Party Advisory

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098370.html

Third Party Advisory

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/098398.html

Third Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00001.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00002.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00016.html

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

osvdb.org / 89644

Broken Link

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0199.html

Third Party Advisory

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

secunia.com / advisories/52001

Third Party Advisory

secunia.com / advisories/52003

Third Party Advisory

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/81552

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

wiki.libvirt.org / page/Maintenance_Releases

Release NotesVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/57578

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1028047

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1708-1

Third Party Advisory