CVE-2024-4418

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.2 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published May 8, 2024
CWE ID 416

Summary

CVE-2024-4418 is a vulnerability found in libvirt, affecting the 'virtproxyd' daemon. It is caused by a race condition leading to a stack use-after-free flaw. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to access virtproxyd without authentication, potentially escaping their limited access if libvirt is configured with fine-grained access control. Remote users would still need to authenticate before accessing it. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2 (medium severity) and an impact score of 3.6. The exploitability score is 2.5, and the attack vector is local with an availability impact of high. The CWE associated with this vulnerability is CWE-416 (Use After Free). Remediation measures are not mentioned in the provided information.

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