CVE-2020-25653Race Condition in Spice-vdagent

Severity
6.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 26
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-vdagentd, possibly resulting in a denial of service or information leakage from the host. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality as well as system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.2

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-5v7v-8wfp-pqqp: A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-25653: A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections2020-11-26
OSV
spice-vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Microsoft
A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon handled new client connections. This flaw may allow an unprivileged local guest user to become the active agent for spice-2020-11-10
Ubuntu
SPICE vdagent vulnerabilities2020-11-04
Red Hat
spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition2020-11-03
Debian
CVE-2020-25653: spice-vdagent - A race condition vulnerability was found in the way the spice-vdagentd daemon ha...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25653 spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via `SO_PEERCRED` is subject to race condition [fedora-all]2020-11-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25653 spice-vdagent: UNIX domain socket peer PID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED is subject to race condition2020-10-08