CVE-2014-5177 describes an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in libvirt versions 1.0.0 through 1.2.x before 1.2.5, affecting products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and openSUSE. When fine-grained access control is enabled, a local attacker can read arbitrary files by submitting a crafted XML document to various libvirt API methods. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a local attack with high access complexity and potential for partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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