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CVE-2019-3831

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3831 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VDSM versions 4.19 through 4.30.3 and 4.30.5 through 4.30.8, as well as related oVirt and Red Hat products. The vulnerability allows a highly privileged local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by abusing the systemd_run function exposed to the VDSM system user. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), this flaw carries a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (e.g., Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.19, <= 4.30.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:vdsm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.30.5, <= 4.30.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:vdsm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 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 (7)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ioprocess-0:1.1.2-1.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: safelease-0:1.0-7.el7ev
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.30.18-1.0.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-8.3.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20190219.0.el7_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.20.47-1.el7ev
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-3831Moderate

vdsm: privilege escalation to root via systemd_run

Feb 14, 2019

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory