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CVE-2017-1000256

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Oct 31, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000256
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html

libvirt version 2.3.0 and later is vulnerable to a bad default configuration of verify-peer=no passed to QEMU by libvirt resulting in a failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates by default.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libvirt Redhat 2.3.0 (including) 3.9.0 (excluding)
Libvirt Ubuntu artful *
Libvirt Ubuntu upstream *
Libvirt Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References

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