CVE-2010-2238

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.7.2 through 0.8.2, recurses into disk-image backing stores without extracting the defined disk backing-store format, which might allow guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors.

Published: 2010-08-19 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2010-2238 is rated Low Risk (24.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-2238

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2023-03-07 1.28% 0.06% -1.22%
2 2022-02-04 — 1.28% —

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-2238

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 2.7 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-2238

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-2238

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2010-2238 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libvirt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2238
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2238
ubuntu low CVE-2010-2238 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libvirt), 7 status rows across 7 suites (dapper, hardy, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, upstream): not-affected 3, released 3, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-2238

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-2238

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
libvirt libvirt 0.7.2 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.7.3 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.7.5 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.7.6 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.7.7 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libvirt libvirt 0.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:libvirt:libvirt:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-2238

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