Vulnerability · Published Nov 17, 2025 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2025-13193Libvirt: information disclosure via world-readable vm snapshots

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect default permissions in libvirt. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in libvirt. External inactive snapshots for shut-down VMs are incorrectly created as world-readable, making it possible for unprivileged users to inspect the guest OS contents. This results in an information disclosure vulnerability.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.23libvirt11.10.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2025-13193
Alpine:v3.24libvirt11.10.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2025-13193
Debian:13libvirt11.3.0-3+deb13u2DEBIAN-CVE-2025-13193
Debian:14libvirt11.10.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-13193
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibvirt8.0.0-1ubuntu7.19USN-8652-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibvirt8.0.0-1ubuntu7.15UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13193
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibvirt10.0.0-2ubuntu8.16USN-8652-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlibvirt10.0.0-2ubuntu8.11UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13193
Ubuntu:25.10libvirt11.6.0-1ubuntu3.2UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13193
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibvirt11.6.0-1ubuntu7UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13193
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibvirt12.0.0-1ubuntu5.3USN-8652-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
libvirt 0 – before 11.10.0
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references

Weakness: CWE-276 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References