CVE-2019-3886

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.4
EPSS: EPSS 1.12 % · percentile 66 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-04-04
Updated: 2024-08-04
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

An incorrect permissions check was discovered in libvirt 4.8.0 and above. The readonly permission was allowed to invoke APIs depending on the guest agent, which could lead to potentially disclosing unintended information or denial of service by causing libvirt to block.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L	redhat
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	MEDIUM 5.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.8	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-862

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2019-13496
GCVE · GCVE-0-2019-3886

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.8.0 < 5.3.0
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
The libvirt Project · libvirt	affected 4.8.0 and above

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