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CVE-2015-0236

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0236 is a vulnerability in libvirt versions prior to 1.2.12, affecting products like Canonical, Mageia, openSUSE, and Red Hat. It allows remote authenticated users to obtain VNC passwords by crafting specific XML descriptions for snapshots or saved images. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and medium attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 1,638 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:1.2.8-16.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:1.2.8-16.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:1.2.8-16.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed 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-2015-0236Low

libvirt: missing ACL check for the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag in save images and snapshots objects

Jan 22, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0046.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0323.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62766
security.libvirt.org / 2015/0001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2867-1
Third Party Advisory