CVE-2017-2635

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.7
EPSS: EPSS 1.53 % · percentile 75 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-08-22
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

A NULL pointer deference flaw was found in the way libvirt from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0 handled empty drives. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libvirtd daemon resulting in denial of service.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 7.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2017-11796
GCVE · GCVE-0-2017-2635

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.5.0 ≤ 3.0.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
The libvirt Project · libvirt	affected from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD