CVE-2013-4236

low
Published 2013-08-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.7
VIR risk
2.7

Description

VDSM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 and 3.2 allows privileged guest users to cause the host to become "unavailable to the managment server" via invalid XML characters in a guest agent response. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0167.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1155.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatenterprise_virtualization3.0
redhat redhatenterprise_virtualization3.2

References

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