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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 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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