CVE-2020-25652Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Spice-vdagent

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 26
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

debiandebian/spice-vdagent< spice-vdagent 0.20.0-2 (bookworm)
Debianspice-space/spice-vdagent< 0.20.0-2+3
Ubuntuspice-space/spice-vdagent< 0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2+1
CVEListV5spice-space/spice-vdagentspice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 32, 33

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6rmh-mmff-jmfj: A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-25652: A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket2020-11-26
OSV
spice-vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Microsoft
A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any un2020-11-10
Ubuntu
SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04
Red Hat
spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd2020-11-03
Debian
CVE-2020-25652: spice-vdagent - A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle ...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25652 spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in `vdagentd` [fedora-all]2020-11-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25652 spice-vdagent: possibility to exhaust file descriptors in vdagentd2020-10-08