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CVE-2015-5313

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5313 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in libvirt's virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function, specifically affecting Red Hat libvirt installations with fine-grained ACLs enabled. An attacker with storage_vol:create ACL but lacking domain:write permission could exploit this by using ".." in a volume name to write to arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.5, indicating local access and high attack complexity, with a potential impact of low integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

2.5LOW

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 223 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 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 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvirt-0:2.0.0-10.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libvirt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5313Moderate

libvirt: filesystem storage volume names path traversal flaw

Dec 11, 2015

References

libvirt.org / git
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174404.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html
security.libvirt.org / 2015/0004.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-10
redhat.com / archives/libvir-list/2015-December/msg00473.html
securityfocus.com / bid/90913