CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-1000256

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Oct 31, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
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
Ubuntu

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 *

Potential Mitigations

References