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CVE-2014-0179

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0179 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libvirt versions 0.7.5 through 1.2.4, impacting products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and openSUSE. A local attacker can exploit this XML External Entity (XXE) issue by submitting a crafted XML document to the virConnectCompareCPU or virConnectBaselineCPU API methods, causing the system to hang. With a CVSS score of 1.9, this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 747 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.10.2-29.el6_5.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:1.1.1-29.el7_0.1
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: libvirt
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.1Fixed in: libvirt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libvirt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0179Moderate

libvirt: unsafe parsing of XML documents allows libvirt DoS and/or arbitrary file read

May 6, 2014

References

libvirt.org / news.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00048.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00052.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0560.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60895
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
security.libvirt.org / 2014/0003.html
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3038
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2366-1