CVE-2015-5313

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Published 2016-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
2.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
1.9
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the virStorageBackendFileSystemVolCreate function in storage/storage_backend_fs.c in libvirt, when fine-grained Access Control Lists (ACL) are in effect, allows local users with storage_vol:create ACL but not domain:write permission to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a volume name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
27%
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-2015-5313

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://security.libvirt.org/2015/0004.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1.3.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatlibvirt-

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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