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CVE-2018-10908

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10908 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in VDSM versions prior to 4.20.37, affecting oVirt and Red Hat Virtualization products. An attacker can exploit this by uploading a specially crafted image, causing the qemu-img process to consume excessive memory or CPU resources. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.0 score of 6.3 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and 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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.20.37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:vdsm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.20.39-1.el7ev
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10908Moderate

vdsm: calls to qemu-img are not protected by prlimit/ulimit

Aug 8, 2018

References

lists.nongnu.org / archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHEA-2018:2624
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
gerrit.ovirt.org
PatchThird Party Advisory