CVE-2015-5313 (GCVE-0-2015-5313)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
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Summary
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.
Severity
2.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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2015-12-11 00:00
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