CVE-2015-0237

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-02-04
CWE:
CWE-732
Bugzilla:
1184716: CVE-2015-0237 vdsm: Users attempting a live storage migration create snapshot without snapshot creation permissions
It was discovered that the permissions to allow or deny snapshot creation were ignored during live storage migration of a VM's disk between storage domains. An attacker able to live migrate a disk between storage domains could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0237 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of ovirt-engine-backend as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
RHEV Manager 3 (org.ovirt.engine-root) RHSA-2015:0888 2015-04-28

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
RHEV Manager 3 ovirt-engine-backend Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Red Hat Enterprise Visualization Engineering.

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