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CVE-2007-0998

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
20/03/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The VNC server implementation in QEMU, as used by Xen and possibly other environments, allows local users of a guest operating system to read arbitrary files on the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to QEMU monitor mode, as demonstrated by mapping files to a CDROM device. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:desktop:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:desktop_multiple_os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:server:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:virtualization:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora_core:core_5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora_core:core6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xen:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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