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CVE-2020-15708

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

  • Published: Nov 6, 2020
  • Updated: Nov 16, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2020-15708
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.3
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 20.04 20.04.x