CVE-2015-5247 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libvirt versions 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 in products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat libvirt. A remote authenticated user with read-write access can crash the libvirtd service by creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool and triggering a failed unlink operation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity by a low-privileged user, leading to high 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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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