Vulnerability CVE-2017-1000256
Published: 2017-10-31

Description:
libvirt version 2.3.0 and later is vulnerable to a bad default configuration of "verify-peer=no" passed to QEMU by libvirt resulting in a failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates by default.

Type:

CWE-295

 (Certificate Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Libvirt 
Libvirt project -> Libvirt 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4003
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000256
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1556251.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-announce/2017-October/msg00001.html
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