VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2693

low
Published 2012-06-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
3.7
VIR risk
3.7

Description

libvirt, possibly before 0.9.12, does not properly assign USB devices to virtual machines when multiple devices have the same vendor and product ID, which might cause the wrong device to be associated with a guest and might allow local users to access unintended USB devices.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2693

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg01494.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.12-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.12-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.12-1
debian debiansidfixed0.9.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.12-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhatlibvirt{"endIncluding":"0.9.11"}
redhatlibvirt0.0.1
redhatlibvirt0.0.2
redhatlibvirt0.0.3
redhatlibvirt0.0.4
redhatlibvirt0.0.5
redhatlibvirt0.0.6
redhatlibvirt0.1.0
redhatlibvirt0.1.1
redhatlibvirt0.1.3
redhatlibvirt0.1.4
redhatlibvirt0.1.5
redhatlibvirt0.1.6
redhatlibvirt0.1.7
redhatlibvirt0.1.8
redhatlibvirt0.1.9
redhatlibvirt0.2.0
redhatlibvirt0.2.1
redhatlibvirt0.2.2
redhatlibvirt0.2.3
redhatlibvirt0.3.0
redhatlibvirt0.3.1
redhatlibvirt0.3.2
redhatlibvirt0.3.3
redhatlibvirt0.4.0
redhatlibvirt0.4.1
redhatlibvirt0.4.2
redhatlibvirt0.4.3
redhatlibvirt0.4.4
redhatlibvirt0.4.5
redhatlibvirt0.4.6
redhatlibvirt0.5.0
redhatlibvirt0.5.1
redhatlibvirt0.6.0
redhatlibvirt0.6.1
redhatlibvirt0.6.2
redhatlibvirt0.6.3
redhatlibvirt0.6.4
redhatlibvirt0.6.5
redhatlibvirt0.7.0
redhatlibvirt0.7.1
redhatlibvirt0.7.2
redhatlibvirt0.7.3
redhatlibvirt0.7.4
redhatlibvirt0.7.5
redhatlibvirt0.7.6
redhatlibvirt0.7.7
redhatlibvirt0.8.0
redhatlibvirt0.8.1
redhatlibvirt0.8.2
redhatlibvirt0.8.3
redhatlibvirt0.8.4
redhatlibvirt0.8.5
redhatlibvirt0.8.6
redhatlibvirt0.8.7
redhatlibvirt0.8.8
redhatlibvirt0.9.0
redhatlibvirt0.9.1
redhatlibvirt0.9.2
redhatlibvirt0.9.3
redhatlibvirt0.9.4
redhatlibvirt0.9.5
redhatlibvirt0.9.6
redhatlibvirt0.9.7
redhatlibvirt0.9.8
redhatlibvirt0.9.9
redhatlibvirt0.9.10

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.