CVE-2022-0897 is a medium-severity flaw in the libvirt nwfilter driver, affecting products like NetApp libvirt and Red Hat libvirt. The vulnerability stems from a missing mutex lock, allowing an unprivileged user to crash the network filter management daemon (libvirtd/virtnwfilterd) via the virConnectNumOfNWFilters API. This issue has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a low impact on availability with low attack complexity and privileges required. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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