CVE-2014-0028

medium
Published 2014-01-24 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

libvirt 1.1.1 through 1.2.0 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the domain:getattr and connect:search_domains restrictions in ACLs and obtain sensitive domain object information via a request to the (1) virConnectDomainEventRegister and (2) virConnectDomainEventRegisterAny functions in the event registration API.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.1
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.2
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.3
redhat redhatlibvirt1.1.4
redhat redhatlibvirt1.2.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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