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CVE-2018-10908 Detail

Current Description

It was found that vdsm before version 4.20.37 invokes qemu-img on untrusted inputs without limiting resources. By uploading a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause the qemu-img process to consume unbounded amounts of memory of CPU time, causing a denial of service condition that could potentially impact other users of the host.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/09/2018
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.3 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 4.0
Exploitability Score: 1.8

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.1 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-07/msg00488.html Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:2624 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10908 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/93195/ Patch Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-10908
NVD Published Date:
08/09/2018
NVD Last Modified:
10/10/2018