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Vulnerability · Published Nov 26, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-25651

Medium 6.4

In plain English

A medium-severity race condition in spice-vdagent. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in the SPICE file transfer protocol. File data from the host system can end up in full or in parts in the client connection of an illegitimate local user in the VM system. Active file transfers from other users could also be interrupted, resulting in a denial of service. 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8spice-vdagent0.20.0-3.el8ALSA-2021:1791
Debian:12spice-vdagent0.20.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25651
Debian:13spice-vdagent0.20.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25651
Debian:14spice-vdagent0.20.0-2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25651
Rocky Linux:8spice-vdagent0:0.20.0-3.el8RLSA-2021:1791

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a spice-vdagent spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior

Weakness: CWE-362

References